The Witch House at 310½ Essex Street is a self-guided museum: $17 for an adult, open daily 10:00–17:00 from 15 April to 15 November. Two day trips from Boston include entry; several walks in Salem pass it outside.
A salem witch house tour is a visit to one building: the Witch House at 310½ Essex Street, home of Judge Jonathan Corwin. It is a self-guided museum — you walk through at your own pace — and an adult ticket costs $17. On GetYourGuide two day trips from Boston include entry: the Private Salem Day Trip with Witch House Entry and the Small-Group Halloween Season Day Tour. Walks in Salem pass it outside.
The private salem day trip with witch house entry costs $151.47 per person for a private group, with 30 minutes inside, the Memorial, the Old Burying Point and Proctor’s Ledge; it is new and has no reviews yet. The Halloween season day tour costs $385 per person. For a walk past the house, the Witch Trial Walking Tour costs $29.99 and is marked for all ages.
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Your pace · daily 10:00–17:00, mid-April to mid-November
Secrets of Salem Hidden History Walking Tour · 2 h · Witch House from outside
From Boston: Private Salem Day Trip with Witch House Entry · 8.5 h · hotel pickup
Walk in during opening hours: daily 10:00–17:00 from 15 April to 15 November, last entry 16:30; Thursday to Sunday 12:00–16:00 in winter, last entry 15:45. Adults pay $17 and children under four go free. This is the cheapest way inside and needs no tour at all.
Eight and a half hours with pickup at a Boston hotel, Flynn Cruiseport or the Royal Caribbean cruise port. Witch House admission is included, with 30 minutes inside, plus a Peabody Essex Museum or Real Pirates Museum ticket, 40 minutes at the Memorial, 20 at the Old Burying Point and 10 at Proctor’s Ledge. In the Halloween season, mid-September to 31 October, all tours start at 08:00. Car seats are not provided.
Eight hours with hotel pickup in Boston, entry to the Witch House and to the Old Burying Point, the Memorial, the Ropes Mansion and Proctor’s Ledge, with a lunch break. It is the one tour on GetYourGuide built for October, and it has no reviews yet.
Several walks in Salem name the Witch House from outside: the Witch Trial Walking Tour, SEE IT ALL, Salem 101, the walk that ends in a witchcraft practice and the psychic tour with a tarot reading. From Boston, the coach day and the two Hammond Castle trips pass it too.
None of the walks in Salem includes the ticket. If you want to go in, finish your walk on Essex Street and buy it at the door — the house is a self-guided visit, so you can add it to any walk that ends nearby.
The Witch House is the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, one of the magistrates of 1692; the accused were brought here for pretrial examinations. Corwin bought the house in 1675, and the state inventory dates it to about 1675; family tradition claims 1642, but there is no tree-ring dating to settle it.
Judge Jonathan Corwin’s house — in the museum’s words, the only remaining structure with direct ties to the witch trials of 1692
310½ Essex St, Salem, MA
Daily 10:00–17:00, 15 April – 15 November; Thursday to Sunday 12:00–16:00 in winter
$17 adult · children under four free
The museum calls it Salem’s only remaining structure with direct ties to the trials. Put more carefully, it is the only house in Salem with direct ties to the 1692 trials that is open to the public. The executions took place elsewhere, at Proctor’s Ledge, about a mile from downtown.
How to use that on a visit: the Witch House is where the legal side of 1692 becomes a room you can stand in. The Memorial, 135 metres from the Charter Street burying point, is where the names are; Proctor’s Ledge is where the sentences were carried out; the Salem Witch Museum by Salem Common tells the whole sequence seated. Together they make the story of the trials — the house alone is one chapter of it, the chapter of the examinations.
If you have time for only one paid ticket in Salem, choose by what you want. The Witch House gives you a real building from the period for $17; the Salem Witch Museum gives you the full story in under an hour for $19. Both are indoors, which makes either a good plan for a rainy afternoon.
The two tours that go inside are new and have no reviews yet, so the quotes below come from two tours that pass the house: the Witch Trial Walking Tour, 4.32 from 40, and the Salem and Hammond Castle semi-private day from Boston, 4.62 from 12. They are short extracts from GetYourGuide reviews with the first name and month.
“We were the only 2 on the tour and it was very personal.”
“I took a 13 and 17 yo and both loved it. Perfect blend between doing your own thing with the benefit of a knowledgeable guide.”
Check the season first: from mid-November to mid-April the house opens only Thursday to Sunday afternoons. For the private day trip, bring car seats for children under 8 or 57 inches, and expect an 08:00 start in the Halloween season. Both day trips are free to cancel up to 24 hours before.
Three ways to see the Witch House, side by side. The two day trips go inside and add Proctor’s Ledge; the walk passes outside for about $30. On your own, the ticket is $17.
Yes, if you want to stand inside a building from the time of the trials: it is the only house in Salem with direct ties to 1692 that is open to the public. The visit is self-guided and costs $17 for an adult. If you only want a photo, it is free from Essex Street.
$17 for an adult; children under four go free.
Daily 10:00–17:00 from 15 April to 15 November, last entry 16:30. From 16 November to 14 April, Thursday to Sunday 12:00–16:00, last entry 15:45.
Two day trips from Boston: the Private Salem Day Trip with Witch House Entry ($151.47 per person, 30 minutes inside) and the Small-Group Halloween Season Day Tour ($385). No walk in Salem includes the ticket.
The museum calls it the only remaining structure with direct ties to the trials. It is the only house with direct ties to 1692 that is open to visitors.
The visit is self-guided, so it is up to you; the private day trip allows 30 minutes inside.
At 310½ Essex Street. The Memorial and the Charter Street burying point are free and in the same centre.
Yes. Several walks pass it outside; buy the ticket at the door when your walk ends nearby. The Witch Trial Walking Tour names the Memorial, Charter Street and the Witch House in one route.
