The Peabody Essex Museum has held multiple exhibits on the Salem Witch Trials and related topics. Pages for specific exhibitions can be found on the Salem Witch Trials Collection page.

Focusing on the visual artistry of bookmaking and printing, from cover designs to typography, this exhibition highlighted Hawthorne's work and the full creativity present in books as art objects.

The letters and photographs shared in this exhibition were a fraction of Chester and Davida’s personal archive and showed how the Herwitzes’ appreciation for Indian art helped them develop a network of friendships and build their collection.

Let None Be Excluded featured documents that capture the impassioned activism of young Black leaders, including Sarah Parker Remond and Robert Morris, whose words and actions changed the course of our schools and our nation.

Power and Perspective provided a rich account of the exchanges between photographers, artists, patrons and subjects in treaty port China and shed light on photography as an inherently social medium that continues to shape our perspectives today.

Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick is the first exhibition focused on the book arts of the hundreds of editions published since 1851: the illustrations, binding designs, typography and even the physical structures and is drawn almost entirely from the Phillips Library collection.