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The Kittens

The kittens have had a busy day.

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Edison’s Statue in Washington, DC.

Don Gfell, tireless worker for the placing of Edison’s statue in Washington, DC…..reading off over $13,000 in donations from the Milan community.

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EBP Christmas Party

Everyone is getting rowdy at the Christmas Party.

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Edison Birthplace on News Channel 5

Milan, Ohio birthplace of Thomas Edison provides lighted path to the life of a great inventor Read more 

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Birthplace Fall Cleanup

THANK YOU, THANK YOU Nick and Kelly Georgiafandis and the Edison HS Interact Club and our employee, Jason Wolfkill for our great fall cleanup this last Saturday. They also put up some Christmas...

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EBP Closed in January

THE EDISON BIRTHPLACE WILL BE CLOSED IN JANUARY. SEE YOU ALL BACK ON SUN., FEB 1, 1-5PM! THANKS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS FROM FAR AND NEAR FOR A GREAT YEAR!

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Edison Goes to Washington

Alan Cottrill, a farm boy from Zanesville who didn’t begin sculpting until he was 38, has been picked as the creator of a statue of Ohio native Thomas A. Edison for the U.S. Statuary Hall in the U.S....

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Erie County Community Foundation’s Generous Support

The Edison Birthplace website has been redesigned through a generous grant from the Erie County Community Foundation in Sandusky, Ohio.  The Foundation has also funded many other projects for the...

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International Museum Day May 16, 2015

The Edison Birthplace Museum will be open on Sat., May 16, 11 am – 4 pm with walk-thru tours by costumed guides, children’s games of Tom Edison’s youth outside and toys for play inside the Birthplace...

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Thomas Edison statue unveiled in Columbus for Ohio to see

A cover was pulled off the 6-feet, 10-inches tall bronze statue of Thomas Alva Edison, not including the base, in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse where it will remain until October before making...

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International Museum Day May 21, 2016

We’ll be open 11am – 4pm with our staff in period costume to guide you through Thomas Edison’s Birthplace home at NO CHARGE!  We will have children’s games of Tom’s boyhood to play outside and a...

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Edison Statue Spends Summer in Milan

Thomas Edison is spending the summer in his hometown!  It’s been a long road to Washington for Thomas Edison, starting in 2007, when support was rallied all over the state for Edison to be the...

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Ohio Statue of Thomas Edison finally resides in Washington, DC

The statue in Washington, L to R  Linda Wheeler, Alan Cottrill, Alex Wheeler, Robert Wheeler (great great grand nephew of Thomas Edison) A  bronze, larger-than-life statue of Thomas Edison now resides...

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International Museum Day May 20, 2017

The Edison Birthplace will be celebrating International Museum Day on Saturday, May 20th, 2017 with all the other museums in Erie County. We will have free walk-thru tours for the public and games from...

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PPG Pittsburgh, PA & Huron, OH Revitalize Edison Birthplace

PPG Pittsburgh, PA and Huron, Ohio were onsite with employee volunteers from it’s plant in Huron, OH and paint contractors from Textbook Painting in Avon Lake, OH to revitalize and restore parts of...

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Edison Birthplace Celebrates Japan’s Tanabata Festival

For over 7 years now, the Birthplace has been involved in the Tanabata Festival of Yawata City in Japan .  The Festival is based on a myth about 2 stars that appear on either side of the Milky Way in...

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The museum will be open special hours for the week of Tuesday, March 27, 2018 to Sat., March 31., 1-5pm We’ll be closed Sun.,April 1 for Easter We’ll be open Tues.-Sun., 1-5pm in April, 2018 

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Mr. Edison Permanent Resident of Milan

Thomas Edison has come to stay in Milan, in the form of a handsome bronze statue, a close replica of the Edison statue now representing Ohio in Statuary Hall of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC....

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Percy the Peacock

Percy in front of the Edison Birthplace Museum Percy…..Peacock About Town!  Percy became a resident of the neighborhood around the Edison Birthplace in October of 2017.  He had been owned by two people...

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Erie County Community Foundation Supports the Edison Birthplace

The Erie County Community Foundation has been a loyal supporter of the Edison Birthplace with grant money. We have been able to replace two furnaces and air conditioners,  light-intensity filtering...

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