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About Salem Athenaeum

Library hours: 11:00-6:00 p.m. Tuesday-Friday 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday Open to the public. Our Mission: To preserve and excite the literary and cultural passions of the North Shore 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. 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. The Salem Athenaeum presents the Salem Literary Festival.