Collecting The Globe: The Salem East India Marine Society Museum

"A cabinet, that every mariner may possess the history of the world"

Origins

"May resources from the ambition of its members continue to accomplish its design"

A society of collectors

"Gathered, with cost and pains, from every clime"

A museum built by mariners, the public, and the global networks of nineteenth-century maritime trade

Exhibition and display

Visitor experiences at the East India Marine Society Museum

"That thus their exploits, on the ocean wave, from age to age might still be handed down"

A continuing legacy of inspiration.