Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Salem Athenaeum, an independent membership library in historic Salem, Massachusetts. Explore the current exhibition, reading rooms, stacks, rare book room, card catalog (with hand-written cards from 1899), and garden, weather permitting. The tour will last approximately one hour and 15 minutes and will be led by Executive Director Jean Marie Procious.
Please Register. Attendance is limited to 15. Waitlist available.
ABOUT THE SALEM ATHENAEUM
Incorporated in 1810, the Salem Athenaeum is an independent membership library and cultural center hosting lectures, concerts, plays, discussion groups, author and poetry readings, storytelling, workshops for readers and writers, and literary social events. The Salem Athenaeum has been the primary presenter of the Salem Literary Festival since 2017.
Library holdings include a contemporary circulating collection of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature as well as historical research collections in literature for adults and children, natural sciences, political and social sciences, theology, and travel.
Located in the National Register McIntire Historic District, the Athenaeum has been at 337 Essex Street since 1907. Its Georgian Revival location was designed for the Athenaeum by William Rantoul, based on published plans of the Homewood estate in Baltimore, Maryland.
