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Edgar Allan Poe Museum

The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a located in the neighborhood of , , , dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
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  • Opening hours:
    Tuesday—Saturday: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
    Sunday: 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: Museum in Richmond, Virginia
  • Also known as: “Poe Museum” and “Poe Shrine”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Virginia Holocaust Museum and Libby Prison.

Museum
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The is a public history museum located in , , United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims. is situated 460 feet south of Edgar Allan Poe Museum.

Archaeological site
Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.
was a Confederate prison at , during the American Civil War. In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days Battles and other conflicts of the Union's Peninsular campaign to take Richmond and end the war only a year after it had begun. is situated 580 feet south of Edgar Allan Poe Museum.

House
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip.

Neighborhood
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, historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in , just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill and , contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

Neighborhood
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
is a district in the downtown area of . The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former .

Neighborhood
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is a historic district of , . According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington…

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Latitude
37.53216° or 37° 31′ 56″ north
Longitude
-77.42608° or 77° 25′ 34″ west
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q1130116
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