Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site - Things To Do (U.S. National Park Service)

View our exhibits on the life and legacy on Edgar Allan Poe. We have 3 permanent and 2 changing exhibit areas.
Shop to your heart's content. Items ranging from biographies, anthologies, postcards, posters, bookmarks, T-shirts and much, much more. Find that perfect souvenir or gift for yourself or Poe fan back home!
Sit back and enjoy our 8-minute audio-visual presentation on Poe's life.
Read articles we've posted in the "Poe in the News" section of the theater.
Take a self-guided or ranger-led tour of Poe's historic house.
Indulge your literary passion in the reading room patterned after Poe's essay, "The Philosophy of Furniture."
Listen to Poe's works narrated by famous actors such as Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Christopher Walken and others.
If music is more your fancy, tap your feet to the various works of Poe put to music by the Alan Parson Project, Lou Reed and others.
Sign our guest book and let your comments be known to others that visit the site.
Join our mailing list to receive information on our upcoming special events.
Pose with our "Raven"
Take a picture in front of the Poe mural.
Consider joining the "Friends of Poe"
Encourage your school, group or organization to plan a visit to the site.
Rap upon our chamber door again real soon!
Read more Poe.