The beautiful Phillips Library welcomes visitors and researchers.
Welcome to the Phillips Library, the research and documentation division of the Peabody Essex Museum. As one of New England’s older libraries, the library has an international reputation as a major resource for maritime history and art, New England life and culture, American decorative arts, Asian art and culture, Native American history and art, the art and culture of Oceania, natural history and genealogy.
The library provides researchers, curators, and the general public access to 400,000 printed volumes, over a mile in linear feet of manuscripts, and an extensive collection of ephemera, broadsides, pamphlets, and a substantial run of periodicals. Located in two architecturally noted structures, the John Tucker Daland House and Plummer Hall, the research facility provides wireless Internet access to all researchers.
What’s New
The Phillips Library will be closed to all patrons on Thursday, September 23, and Friday, September 24, due to staff participation in the 2010 Art Museum Libraries Symposium that will be held in the Morse Auditorium at PEM.
The Library will be open on Wednesday, September 22. The Library will reopen to visiting researchers and library fellows on Monday, September 27 and to the general public on Wednesday, September 27.
Please plan your research accordingly.
