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Museum Acquires Poe’s Most Famous Story and a Piece of Poe’s Home

Even after ninety years, the Poe Museum’s collection continues to grow. Here are a few of the recent acquisitions made possible by the Poe Museum’s friends. First Printing of “The...

Bring Your Little Poes to Poe’s Pumpkin Patch

It’s that time of year again. You and your kids are looking for fun Halloween activities, and you can’t do much better than Poe’s Pumpkin Patch, an afternoon of Poe-themed...

October Unhappy Hour Pays Tribute to Great Horror Tale

On October 25 from 6 to 9 P.M. the Poe Museum will celebrate Poe’s horror masterpiece “The Masque of the Red Death” with an Unhappy Hour featuring live music by...

See “The Masque of the Red Death” in Stunning Stained Glass

The Poe Museum is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of new artwork inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death.” The show will open...

VCU Students Show New Film at the Poe Museum

Students have long had a fascination with Edgar Poe. Every year the Poe Museum receives numerous calls and emails from students writing papers on their favorite author. Less frequently, the...

Poe Museum Members Explore Shockoe Hill Cemetery

Last Sunday, the members of the Poe Museum were invited to a special Poe-themed tour of Richmond’s Shockoe Hill Cemetery led by Jeffry Burden, President of the Friends of Shockoe...

Poe’s Last Love Remembered

In one of the last letters he would ever write, Edgar Poe told his aunt, Maria Clemm, “I think loves me more devotedly than any one I ever knew...

Poe Museum Summer 2012 Newsletter

Here is the latest issue of the Poe Museum’s newsletter featuring updates on the Museum’s fall events. Summer2012newsletter5...

A Visit to Poe’s Cottage

A guest at the modest cottage in which Poe lived during his final three years provided this description of meeting the poet in his home: “I well remember the pretty...

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