Athenaeum may refer to:

Books and periodicals

* ''Athenaeum'' (German magazine), a journal of German Romanticism, established 1798 * ''Athenaeum'' (British magazine), a weekly London literary magazine 1828–1921 * ''The Athenaeum'' (Acadia University), a student newspaper of Acadia University, Nova Scotia * '' The Daily Athenaeum'', the newspaper of West Virginia University * ''The Athenaeum'' (novel), a novel by Raul Pompéia 1888 *

Atheneum Books Atheneum Books was a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Simon & Schuster has owned Atheneum properties since its acquisition of Macmillan in 1994 and it created Athen ...

, a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster *

Athenaeum Press Athenæum Press is an historic building located at 215 First Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The structure occupies the entire block between First Street, Second Street, Athenæum Street, and Linskey Way, which was formerly known as Munroe Str ...

, an imprint of Ginn and Company

Clubs and societies

(alphabetical by city) *

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, US *

Liverpool Athenaeum The Athenaeum is a private members club in Liverpool, England. The club was founded to ensure the up-to-date provision of newspapers and pamphlets, and to create a library for the use of the merchants and professional men in the city. The orig ...

, Liverpool, UK *

Athenaeum Club, London The Athenaeum is a private members' club in London, founded in 1824. It is primarily a club for men and women with intellectual interests, and particularly (but not exclusively) for those who have attained some distinction in science, engineerin ...

, UK *

German Athenaeum The German Athenaeum (German: Deutscher Verein für Kunst und Wissenschaft; "The German Association for Art and Science") was founded in 1869 by German artists and writers, with Gottfried Kinkel playing a key role. It was an elitist association of ...

, London, UK *

Ateneo de Madrid The Ateneo de Madrid ("Athenæum of Madrid") is a private cultural institution located in the capital of Spain that was founded in 1835. Its full name is ''Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico de Madrid'' ("Scientific, Literary and Artistic ...

, Spain *

Manchester Athenaeum The Athenaeum in Princess Street Manchester, England, now part of Manchester Art Gallery, was originally a club built for the Manchester Athenaeum, a society for the "advancement and diffusion of knowledge", in 1837. The society, founded in 1 ...

, Manchester, UK * Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, Australia * Athenaeum at Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, US *

The Plymouth Athenaeum Plymouth Athenaeum, located in Plymouth, England, is a society dedicated to the promotion of learning in the fields of science, technology, literature and art. The Athenaeum building, located at Derry's Cross in Plymouth City Centre, includes a ...

, Plymouth, UK * Ateneo de Sevilla, Spain

Cultural centers

Athenæum (Das Deutsche Haus) The Athenæum, originally named ''Das Deutsche Haus'' (German: "The German House"), is the most ornate and best-preserved building affiliated with the German American community of Indianapolis. Once used as a German American '' Turnverein'' and ...

, Indianapolis, Indiana, US * The Athenaeum (South Africa), Port Elizabeth, South Africa *

Caracas Athenaeum The Caracas Athenaeum (known in Spanish as the ''Ateneo de Caracas'') is a cultural institution centred on the arts. It is currently located in Macaracuay, at the Southeast corner of Caracas, after having been expelled by the Bolivarian Revolutio ...

, Caracas, Venezuela * Mexican Youth Athenaeum, Mexico City, Mexico *

New Harmony's Atheneum New Harmony's Atheneum is the visitor center for New Harmony, Indiana. It is named for the Greek Athenaion, which was a temple dedicated to Athena in ancient Greece. Funded by the Indianapolis Lilly Endowment in 1976, with the help of the Kran ...

, New Harmony, Indiana, US * Puerto Rican Athenaeum, the English name for

Ateneo Puertorriqueño The Ateneo Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Athenaeum), is a cultural institution in Puerto Rico. Founded on April 30, 1876, it has been called Puerto Rico's oldest cultural institution, however, it is actually its third oldest overall and second c ...

, Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico *

Iași Athenaeum Iași National Athenaeum ( ro, Ateneul Național din Iași), also known as ''Tătărași Athenaeum'', is a public cultural institution in Iași, Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Easte ...

, Iași, Romania

Hotels

The Athenaeum Hotel The Athenaeum is a family-owned five-star hotel overlooking Green Park in Piccadilly, London. History Hope House was built at 116 Piccadilly in 1849–1850 by Henry Pelham-Clinton, the 6th Duke of Newcastle. The name Athenaeum first appears aro ...

, Piccadilly, London, UK * Athenaeum Hotel at the

Chautauqua Institution The Chautauqua Institution ( ) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education center and summer resort for adults and youth located on in Chautauqua, New York, northwest of Jamestown in the Western Southern Tier of New York State. Established in 1874, the ...

, New York, US

Libraries

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is a non-profit membership library located in La Jolla, in the city of San Diego, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million re ...

, La Jolla, California, US * Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US * Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US *

Boston Athenæum The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of a number of membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenaeum services. The institution was founded in ...

, Boston, Massachusetts, US *

Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute is an adult education institute based in a heritage building in Dunedin, New Zealand. The private organisation provided classes and a library for members. Presently it operates a subscription lending li ...

, Dunedin, Otago, NZ * Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle, Washington, US *

Melbourne Athenaeum The Athenaeum or Melbourne Athenaeum is an art and cultural hub in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1839, it is the city's oldest cultural institution. Its building on Collins Street in the East End ...

, Melbourne, Australia * Minneapolis Athenæum, the name of the first library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US *

Portsmouth Athenæum The Portsmouth Athenæum is an independent membership library, gallery, and museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. It preserves and provides access to an extensive collection of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, artworks and art ...

, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US *

Providence Athenaeum The Providence Athenaeum is an independent, member-supported subscription library in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The building is open to the public, but only members can check out items from the collection. The ...

, Providence, Rhode Island, US * Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, US * Salem Athenaeum, Salem, Massachusetts, US *

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum (often written ''St. Johnsbury Athenæum'') is a combined library and art gallery, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The building in which it is housed is architecturally and historically significant because of its construction ...

, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, US * Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, Massachusetts

Museums

* Athenaeum (Alexandria, Virginia), Alexandria, Virginia, US *

Chicago Athenaeum The Chicago Athenaeum is a private museum of architecture and design, based in Galena, Illinois. The museum focuses on the art of design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial and product design, graphics, landscape architecture, ...

, Chicago, Illinois *

, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US *

Wadsworth Atheneum The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School lands ...

, Hartford, Connecticut, US * Wilcannia Athenaeum, Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia

Schools

Europe

* Athenaeum (ancient Rome), a school founded by Emperor Hadrian *

Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre, or Amsterdamse Atheneum, was a city-sponsored 'illustrious school' founded after the beeldenstorm in the old ''Agnieten'' chapel on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Famous scientists such as Caspar Barlae ...

, Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Athenaeum illustre, a late name for the

University of Franeker The University of Franeker (1585–1811) was a university in Franeker, Friesland, the Netherlands. It was the second oldest university of the Netherlands, founded shortly after Leiden University. History Also known as ''Academia Franekerensis'' ...

(1585-1811) *

Atheneum (school) Atheneum, named after the ancient school founded by Roman Emperor Hadrian, is the name used for one of the Dutch educational courses aimed at preparation for scientific education at university with a strong emphasis on academic learning. The VWO ...

, formal name of main educational track of Dutch Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs * Atheneum, the main variant of the ''

voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs ''Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs'' (VWO, meaning "preparatory scientific education" in Dutch) is the highest variant in the secondary educational system of the Netherlands, attended by approximately a fifth of all Dutch high school stud ...

'' (vwo) in the Dutch school system *

Limerick Athenaeum The Limerick Athenaeum was a centre of learning, established in Limerick city, Ireland, in 1852. Background "Athenaeum", also Athenæum or Atheneum, is used in the names of institutions or periodicals for literary, scientific, or artistic stu ...

, Limerick, Ireland * Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music, predecessor institute to the

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( gd, Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba), formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ( gd, Acadamaidh Rìoghail Ciùil is Dràma na h-Alba) is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production, and ...

Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm The Anselmianum, also known as the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm ( it, Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo; ) is a pontifical university in Rome associated with the Benedictines. It offers courses in philosophy, theology, liturgy, monastic studi ...

or Anselmianum, the Benedictine Pontifical University in Rome

North America

* Athenaeum (Tennessee), Columbia, Tennessee, US *

Athenaeum of Ohio The Athenaeum of Ohio – Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, originally St. Francis Xavier Seminary, is a Catholic seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third-oldest Catholic seminary in the United States and was established by Edward ...

, a seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, US

Theaters

* Athenaeum Theatre, Sydney, aka Atheneum Hall, early cinema *

Howard Athenaeum The Howard Athenæum (1845–1953), also known as Old Howard Theatre, in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the most famous theaters in Boston history. Founded in 1845, it remained an institution of culture and learning for most of its years, fina ...

, Boston, Massachusetts, US *

, aka Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Australia * Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, Romania *

, Plymouth, Devon, UK *

New Theatre Comique The Church of the Messiah at 728–30 Broadway, near Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a ...

, known as Atheneum in New York City (1865) *

Warminster Athenaeum Warminster Athenaeum is a Victorian theatre in Warminster, Wiltshire, England, and a Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists main ...

, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK

Other uses

* Athenaeum (Arcadia), a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece *

Athenaeum (band) Athenaeum was an alternative pop rock four-piece band from Greensboro, North Carolina, US, formed in 1990 at an eighth grade dance by Nic Brown and Mark Kano. Overview Classmates Mark Kano and Nic Brown formed the band, Athenaeum, in highscho ...

, a rock band from Greensboro, North Carolina * Athenaeum (fort), a fort of ancient Arcadia, Greece *

Athenaeum Portrait The ''Athenaeum Portrait'', also known as The Athenaeum, is an unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart of United States President George Washington. Created in 1796, it is Stuart's most notable work. The painting depicts Washington at age 65, abo ...

, also known as The Athenaeum, an unfinished portrait of George Washington