The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry to the museum costs $8 for adults; children ages 12 and younger may enter for free when joined by an adult.

Here, they are learning how to mail a letter, which they wrote to a friend about their field trip, at the U.S. Post Office on site at the museum. National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution ...

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This museum on Main Street is perfect for people with a passing interest in Edgar Allan Poe. More ardent fans of the writer's work might find themselves disappointed at the limited exhibits, however.