Photo courtesy of Poe Museum curator, Chris Semtner
Event Title: Virtual Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Edgar Allen Poe Museum Collections
Date/Time: Monday, December 2, 2024 at 12:30pm
Format: Webinar via Zoom
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum located in Richmond, Virginia to virtually explore the library, archives, and collections with its curator Chris Semtner. The Poe Museum is bound to have a few skeletons in its closet (and under the floorboards).
This is a free, virtual webinar hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the webinar. This webinar will be video recorded.
ABOUT
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia boasts the world's finest collection of Edgar Allan Poe artifacts and memorabilia including letters, manuscripts, furnishings from Poe's homes, and the author's clothings and other personal possessions. The Museum continues to acquire memorabilia such as movie posters, fine art, and The Museum's library consists of thousands of Poe-related volumes including biographies, criticism, anthologies, illustrated editions, comic books, pop-up books, multimedia recordings, and periodicals. Accumulated over the course of the Museum's 102-year history, the archives feature the research materials of numerous Poe biographers and collectors in addition to letters and manuscripts from Poe's friends and relatives.
The curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, Christopher P. Semtner has curated numerous critically acclaimed exhibits for the Poe Museum in addition to exhibits for the Library of Virginia, the Science Museum of Virginia, and other venues. The Webster Award-winning author has written several articles and chapters in addition to six books about Poe, visual art, and cryptography. His other publications include the “Poe in Richmond” column for the Edgar Allan Poe Review, a biographical introduction to S. S. Van Dine’s The Benson Murder Case, and chapters for Edgar Allan Poe in 20 Objects, Poe and Place, and More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe. He regularly speaks on dark and mysterious subjects in venues from the Library of Congress to the Steampunk World’s Fair and as far away as Japan. He has appeared in Poe documentaries in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan.
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