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Tell Us Your Favorite Poe Story

What’s your favorite Poe story? The Poe Museum is determined to find out which is Poe’s Greatest Hit, and you can help. Just vote right now for your favorite Poe story from the finalists on this list. Voting continues until January 16 at 5 p.m. Eastern. The winning story will be announced at 5:30 p.m….

Picture Yourself Inside a Poe Story

Ever want to feel what it’s like to get bricked up behind a wall or buried under the floorboards? Here is your chance to step inside Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest terror tales in the Poe Museum of Richmond’s chilling new exhibit “Poe’s Greatest Hits.” Visitors to the exhibit will be able to interact with life-size…

Don’t Miss Poe’s 207th Birthday Bash on January 16!

Already the world’s largest celebration of author Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, the Poe Museum of Richmond’s annual Poe Birthday Bash will outdo itself this January 16 from noon to midnight with twelve straight hours counting down Poe’s greatest hits with performance, film, music, readings, exhibits, and more for just $5 per person. New exhibits opening…

Christmas Comes to the Poe Museum

Bring the whole family to the Poe Museum on Friday, December 5 to discover what Christmas was like in Poe’s time. Singer and historical interpreter Debbie Phillips will perform the traditional Christmas songs Poe would have enjoyed. When not listening to music, you can enjoy hot drinks, make traditional crafts, and see the illumination of…

Photos from the October Unhappy Hour

On October 23, the Poe Museum celebrated its last Unhappy Hour of 2014 with live music by the Blue and the Grey in addition to a performance of “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.” Some of the attendees got into the spirit of things by having their pictures taken in our photo booth….

Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe Reunite for Halloween

During “Vincent Price at the Poe Museum,” legendary horror actor Vincent Price and iconic author Edgar Allan Poe reunite this Halloween Weekend (October 31-November 1, 2014) at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. The weekend kicks off Halloween night, October 31, from 6-10 P.M. with Poe Goes to the Movies, a costume contest…

Join the Poe Museum at This Exciting Free Event

Join the Poe Museum and seventy-five of the Richmond area’s best arts and cultural organizations at the annual Arts and Culture Xpo at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. Here are the details: 4th Annual Arts & Culture Xpo Saturday, June 28th – 10 to 4pm Greater Richmond Convention Center In the heart of the Richmond…

Poe Museum’s October 2013 UNhappy Hour

Join Poe and the gang for the only Halloween party in Richmond with actual ghosts. On Thursday, October 24 from six until nine, the Poe Museum will host its final Unhappy Hour of 2013 featuring live music by Fool’s Errand, paranormal investigation technique demonstrations by Spirited History, psychic readings by David Allen Brown, a new…

The Unhappy Hour Returns to the Poe Museum

After a break for the summer, the Poe Museum’s popular monthly event series, the Unhappy Hour, returns Thursday, September 26 from six to nine for an evening of live music, fine food and drink, and the closing of the museum’s special exhibit Poe in Paris. The theme for the night is “The Fall of the…

Poe’s 204th Birthday Bash Will Be Biggest To Date

The Poe Museum in Richmond’s annual Poe Birthday Bash has been getting bigger and better every year, attracting visitors from around the globe; but this year’s celebration promises to be bigger than ever because it will be celebrating the birthdays of both Edgar Allan Poe and his horror classic “The Tell-Tale Heart.” On January 19,…