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Peabody Essex Museum Celebrates America250 With a New Exhibition
On May 2, 2026, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, is opening an exhibition called Pressing Importance: Salem and the Declaration of Independence for the United States’ 250th birthday and the concurrent Salem 400+ celebration, which “offers a rare opportunity to examine the critical role that Salem played in the printing and circulation of the Declaration of Independence.” The works in the exhibition come from PEM’s Phillips Library collection, which includes “two of the earliest surviving broadside editions of the Declaration, Revolutionary-era manuscripts, newspapers, pamphlets and broadsides. Together, these materials explore themes of freedom, communication and civic engagement, inviting visitors to reflect on the power of the printed word to shape history.”“While the story of the Declaration’s signing in Philadelphia is widely known, far less familiar is how the document’s revolutionary message reached towns and cities across the colonies in the days that followed,” says Dan Lipcan, the Ann C. Pingree Director of PEM’s Phillips Library and curator of the exhibition. “And Salem had an outsized role in shaping the American story.” For more information, read the press release.
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