Peabody Museum of SalemPeabody Museum of Salem

Now embedded within the Peabody Essex Museum, the East India Marine Hall was built in the 1820s. The museum traces its lineage to the 1799 East India Marine Society, claiming to be the nation's oldest continuously operating museum.[129] Photo: WestportWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_India_Marine_Hall,_Peabody_Essex_Museum,_Salem,_MA,_USA_-_July_2013.JPG)