June 2025 UnHappy Hour: Pride
Join us on Thursday, June 26 from 6-9pm for the Poe Museum's Pride UnHappy Hour! Celebrate Pride with a Summer Solstice Party at the Poe Museum! The Summer Solstice marks […]
$5 – $15
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Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United States
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Tell-Tale Talks featuring: Chris Semtner
Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United StatesAbout Chris Semtner: Chris Semtner, who recently celebrated his 25-year anniversary as the curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, is also an internationally exhibited fine artist whose paintings have entered numerous public collections including the Virginia Historical Society and the University of Maryland. He has written several books and chapters on […]
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Edgar’s Enchanted Garden Family Movie Night
The Poe Museum 1914 E Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, United StatesEnjoy a summer evening in the museum’s Enchanted Garden as we celebrate summer reading before the school year. Join us for a screening of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949, G-rated), an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows and Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The museum will provide […]
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July 2025 UnHappy Hour: Land Poe!
Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United StatesAll aboard for Land Poe!—a nautical-themed UnHappy Hour at the Poe Museum! Join us on Thursday, July 24 from 6–9pm for a raucous, salt-sprayed soirée where landlubbers and pirates alike will dance to […]
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Professional Development Workshop
The Poe Museum 1914 E Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, United StatesEdgar Allan Poe is often viewed as an anomaly in history, both for the gruesome subject of his literature and his peculiar appearance. How can one place Poe in the historical timeline when their appears to be so many deviations from our understanding of life in the 19th century? This professional development workshop explores how […]
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Tell-Tale Talks featuring: David Allen Voyles
Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United StatesAbout David Allen Voyles: Some of the tales in David Allen Voyles’ first collection of original horror stories, The Thirteenth Day of Christmas and Other Tales of Yuletide Horror, were those he told while conducting tours for his ghost tour company Dark Ride Tours in Asheville, NC. Playing the role of gravedigger/storyteller Virgil Nightshade, Voyles […]
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August 2025 UnHappy Hour: Wizard of Oz
Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United StatesThere's no place like Poe... Join us on Thursday, August 28 from 6–9pm for a whimsical, Wizard of Oz-inspired evening full of music, food, and magic under the summer sky. Enjoy the smooth […]
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Student Writing Contest
The Poe Museum 1914 E Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, United StatesSUBMISSION DUE DATE: October 31st, 2025 at 11:59pm. PROMPT: Edgar Allan Poe, while most well-known for his gothic short stories, was also a founder of the science fiction and detective genres. Not only did Poe influence these genres, he directly inspired other authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and Jules Verne. Verne went on […]
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Tell-Tale Talks featuring: SJ Sindu
Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United StatesAbout SJ Sindu: SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels (Marriage of a Thousand Lies, which won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award; and Blue-Skinned Gods, which was an Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), two hybrid chapbooks (I Once Met You But You Were Dead, […]
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Witold Krull & Edgar Allan Poe Writing Contest
The Poe Museum 1914 E Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, United StatesTHE KEY TO ONE'S DEATH, OR RATHER AN ABSURD EXPLORATION OF A WRITER'S LIFE A Resolute Literary Contest on the Unearthed Connection Between Two Desperate Writers: Edgar Allan Poe and Witold Krull “October 7th, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe found dead, wearing another’s clothes with only a key found in his pocket. The cause of his […]
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Silent Music Revival at The Poe Museum
The Poe Museum 1914 E Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, United StatesWelcome the autumn season...Presented by James River Film Society, join us on Friday, September 19th at 7:00 PM for Silent Music Revival, Richmond’s enduring live music silent cinema series, live at the Poe Museum. Featuring silent era films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with a live score by GULL. Schedule: Doors - 7:00 PM […]
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September 2025 UnHappy Hour: Fairy-Land
Poe Museum's Enchanted Garden 1914 E Main St, Richmond VA, Virginia, United StatesLive unhappily ever after... Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Fairy-Land," join us for an evening of (dis)enchantment on Thursday, September 25 from 6–9pm at the Poe Museum's Fairy-Land UnHappy Hour! Let the chimes of Tiara […]
$5 – $15