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The Salem
Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692. Visitors are given
a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures,
lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch Trials of 1692.
Tour Highlights:
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Experience the panic of the Witch
Trials |
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Explore Salem's most visited museum |
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Learn the history of these tragic
events |
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The Salem Witch Museum
is dedicated to being the voice of the innocent victims of the
Salem witch trials of 1692. We give personality to the names that you
will hear during your stop at Salem's most visited museum.
She afflicts me!
She comes to me at night and torments me!
She's a witch!
Words such as these struck
terror into the hearts of Salem townspeople in the early spring of
1692 as hysterical young girls called out names.
By summer, hundreds had been accused and imprisoned - defenseless
against accusations of witchcraft in a society driven by superstition
and fear. The court, formed to try the victims, acted quickly. Bridget
Bishop was tried on June 2 and hanged on June 10 thereby setting the
precedent for a summer of executions.
The Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692.
Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with
life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch
Trials of 1692.
Witches: Evolving Perceptions is a provocative exhibit that
examines the stereotypical witch, aspects of witchcraft in the 17th
century, modern witchcraft and the phenomenon of witch hunts. Who are
witches?
Don't answer until you
visit the Salem Witch Museum!
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