Join us for a morning of story time and crafts in the Poe Museum’s Enchanted Garden! Do you have a little one learning to read? The Poe Museum’s Little Raven Reading hour is perfect for rising readers ...

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Extracted from Dr. Murray Ellison’s MA Thesis on Poe and 19th-Century Science from Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015© In Poe’s Imaginary Journey, “Mellonta Tauta” (1849), the narrator, Pundit, ...

Join us on Wednesday, March 27th at 6pm at Linden Row Inn for an evening with acclaimed author, Mark Dawidziak.

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Upon the rock-girt shore of Time.

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The Poe Museum’s new special exhibit “Stormier, Wilder, and More Weird: James Carling and ‘The Raven'” opened on January 14, and visitors were in awe of Carling’s 43 masterful drawings, which fill ...

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s mother on the bicentennial of her death, a Richmond artist painted these two portraits of Eliza Poe. The first is closely based on the only surviving life portrait of ...

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia recently acquired a rare 1846 British pamphlet Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis, in which Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional story of mesmerizing the dead, “The ...

Our August Newsletter has been posted! Make sure to check it out down below for upcoming Museum events and more!

During the Industrial Revolution of the early nineteenth century, there was a need for a new class of writers who could write about emerging scientific information in a way that the new consumers of ...