The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum in Oak Park, IL

The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum in Oak Park, IL is a house museum dedicated to Ernest Hemingway’s early life. Ernest was born on October 21st, 1899, and lived here until he was six years old. It has been preserved as it would have looked at the time Ernest lived there with his parents Hadley Richardson-Hemingway and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway. Learn information about Oak Park, IL.

The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum in Oak Park is the former family house of one of America’s most influential authors. Ernest Miller Hemmingway was born on July 21st in 1899 and spent his early years growing up at this property located at 600 North Kenilworth Avenue in Illinois, USA before leaving for high school to study elsewhere. The museum has been open since 1929 when it was purchased by a group of local women who formed ‘The Friends of Our Native Landscape’ committee with the purpose of collecting funds to purchase the site where they could display memorabilia collected from Mr. Hemingway’s life. Discover facts about The Oak Park Conservatory in Oak Park, IL: A Glimpse into the Beauty of Nature.  

The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum is free to visit and has a number of interesting exhibits including many different first editions, several oil paintings by Mr. Ernest himself as well as personal items like the pool table where he learned how to play billiards along with his brother (and later became one of his best selling novels) “The Sun Also Rises” which was written at this very same house! Visitors can also explore an extensive library that contains books collected all over the world through donations relating to our famous author.