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[[File:Eastindiahall.jpg|right|thumb|320px|East India Marine Hall, the original building from which the museum has since expanded]]
The Peabody-Essex Museum in [[Salem, MA|Salem, Massachusetts]] is one of the oldest museums in the United States. Alongside other collections, it possesses one of the premier collections in the United States of East Asian and Pacific cultural objects, including especially East Asian export art, and maritime art.
The Peabody-Essex Museum in [[Salem, MA|Salem, Massachusetts]] is one of the oldest museums in the United States. Alongside other collections, it possesses one of the premier collections in the United States of East Asian and Pacific cultural objects, including especially East Asian export art, and maritime art.
[[Edward Sylvester Morse]] served as the museum's third director for 36 years, beginning in [[1879]]. Though his renowned ceramics collection was donated/sold to the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], his collection of roughly 30,000 Japanese objects of everyday folk or material culture of the [[Edo period|Edo]] and [[Meiji period]]s was left to the Peabody-Essex.
[[Edward Sylvester Morse]] served as the museum's third director for 36 years, beginning in [[1879]]. Though his renowned ceramics collection was donated/sold to the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], his collection of roughly 30,000 Japanese objects of everyday folk or material culture of the [[Edo period|Edo]] and [[Meiji period]]s was left to the Peabody-Essex.
In the 1880s, the Peabody-Essex and the [[Smithsonian Institution]] shared ownership of a collection of Okinawan objects brought to the US by [[Commodore Perry]].<ref>Takayasu Fuji, "[http://amview.japan.usembassy.gov/wordpress/provenance-of-okinawan-artifacts-in-the-united-states/ Provenance of Okinawan Artifacts in the United States]," ''American View'', 23 Jan 2008.</ref>
Highlights of the collection include one of only three known extant large breadfruit-wood statues of the Hawaiian god Kū, and "Yin Yu Tang," an 18th century Chinese merchant home disassembled from its original location in China's Anhui province and reassembled, whole, adjacent to the Peabody-Essex, and made accessible to visitors.
Highlights of the collection include one of only three known extant large breadfruit-wood statues of the Hawaiian god Kū, and "Yin Yu Tang," an 18th century Chinese merchant home disassembled from its original location in China's Anhui province and reassembled, whole, adjacent to the Peabody-Essex, and made accessible to visitors.
==References==
==References==
*Gallery label plaque about Edward Sylvester Morse, at [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]], Tokyo, Japan.
*Gallery label plaque about Edward Sylvester Morse, at [[Edo-Tokyo Museum]], Tokyo, Japan.
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