These legal records, which were returned to the Judicial Archives following the expansion and modernization of the Massachusetts State Archives facility, are available to researchers around the world on our website here thanks to a comprehensive digitization project undertaken by the museum. From 1980 to 2023, PEM’s Phillips Library was the temporary repository of the state’s Supreme Judicial Court collection of Witch Trial documents. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) holds one of the world’s most important collections of objects and architecture related to the Salem Witch Trials. Today, the City of Salem attracts more than one million tourists per year, many of whom are seeking to learn more about these events. A remarkable set of conflicts and tensions converged, sparking fear and setting the stage for the most widespread and lethal outbreak of witchcraft accusations on this continent.Ĭenturies after this storied crisis, the personal tragedies and grievous wrongs of the Salem Witch Trials continue to provoke reflection, reckoning and a search for meaning. The crisis in Salem, Massachusetts took place partly because the community lived under an ominous cloud of suspicion. The extraordinary series of events in 1692 led to the deaths of 25 innocent women, men and children. The Salem witch trials are a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history.
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