9. Witch spoons
by Paula Richter
Directions to stop #9
We move to the letter L, which is to the left of where we are now.
10. Wooden poppet
by Paula Richter
11. Salem Witch Trials Memorial
by Dan Lipcan
Directions to stop #11
24 Liberty Street
Once you've finished touring Salem Stories, it's time to leave the museum and head outside to some key sites around the Witch City. We begin right behind the museum at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial on Liberty Street.
Exit the front of the museum, turn right and right again to go down the Axelrod Pedestrian Walkway. Make a right at the end and the memorial is on your left.
12. Charter Street Cemetery
by Dan Lipcan
Directions to stop #12
51 Charter Street
Right next door to the memorial for the Salem Witch Trials is one of the oldest cemeteries in the United States. Go now and enter the Charter Street Cemetery at the corner of the memorial. Stay on the gravel path. Keep going at the first little intersection and then stop at the second one, where there's a light stone. We’ll meet you there.
13. The 1684 John Ward House
by Steven Mallory
Directions to stop #13
9 Brown Street
Our next stop is the 17th century historic property called the Ward House. We will walk back to the front of the museum on Essex Street and behind the National Park Service Visitor Center to find several historic structures, including the darkly painted Ward House.
14. The Witch House
by Steven Mallory
Directions to stop #14
310 Essex Street
Now, we’ll walk to another house that looks a lot like the Ward House and is referred to now as The Witch House, located at 310 Essex Street. It’s less than half a mile away.
15. The Ropes Mansion
by Steven Mallory
Directions to stop #15
318 Essex Street
The next stop is the Ropes Mansion a few doors down at 318 Essex Street.
16. The Bewitched Statue
by Kate Fox
Directions to stop #16
Lappin Park at Corner of Essex and Washington Streets
Walk just a few blocks on Essex Street, back toward the museum, and make one more stop in Lappin Park at the corner of Washington and Essex Streets. We’ll meet at the Samantha statue.
Thank you for taking the Salem Witch Trials Walk at PEM. This tour was generously supported by the George S. Parker Fund.
Welcome
by Dinah Cardin
Join host Dinah Cardin on this tour of PEM’s authentic documents and objects from the Salem witch trials. With walking time, the entire tour should take about 90 minutes, but go at your own pace.
Begin on the ground level of the light-filled atrium, at the tour sign outside the Putnam Gallery of Native American and American Art. Here, you’ll listen to some background about Salem in 1692. Listen with headphones, earbuds or by holding up your phone with the volume on low.
2. Examinations of Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and Tituba
by Dan Lipcan
Directions to stop #2
Now it's time to go inside the Putnam Gallery. Go to the halfway point of the Native American and American installation where you'll see a sign on the wall that says Salem Witch Trials. To the right of that sign is a case containing documents.
3. Trial of George Jacobs, Sr. for Witchcraft
by Sarah Chasse
4. Walking stick owned by George Jacobs, Sr.
by Sarah Chasse
Directions to stop #4
Look at the walking stick in the case to the lower left of the painting.
5. Valuables cabinet owned by Joseph and Bathsheba Pope
by Sarah Chasse
Directions to stop #5
Move to the right of the painting where there is a small cabinet in a case.
6. Turned great chair owned by Philip and Mary English
by Sarah Chasse
Directions to stop #6
Next we go to the chair in the case in the middle of the room.
Exiting the gallery to go to stop #7
For the fastest way to exit this gallery, go back the way you came. Or continue to look in the gallery and we’ll meet you at the next stop.
7. Salem Stories
by Paula Richter
Directions to stop #7
Next, we will go to an exhibition called Salem Stories. This is in our East Gallery. Exit the glass doors and take the stairs to your left to Level 3. When you reach Level 3, take a left and then a right into Salem Stories. If you need the elevator, please retrace your steps back, take the elevator and we'll meet upstairs in that gallery at the letter O for October.
8. Hocus Pocus movie poster
by Paula Richter
Directions to stop #8
Look up at a movie poster from a beloved movie that was filmed partly in Salem.