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 Daily Athenaeum'' is the official student newspaper at West Virginia University. Founded in 1887, the paper draws students from all disciplines to contribute original content for publication. It is editorially independent from the universit ...

'', the newspaper of West Virginia University * ''The Athenaeum'' (novel), a novel by Raul Pompéia 1888 * Atheneum Books, 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, 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 18 ...

, Manchester, UK *

Athenaeum Club, Melbourne The Athenaeum Club is a private club situated in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both ...

, Australia *

Athenaeum at Caltech The Athenaeum is a faculty club and private social club on the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena, California. Building The Athenaeum was designed by Gordon Kaufmann in the Mediterranean Revival style, with landscape design ...

, 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 The Ateneo de Sevilla, originally called Excursions Ateneo and Society, is a cultural association in Seville, Spain which was founded in 1887 by Dr. Manuel Gaudencio Sales y Ferrèr. It became prominent in the early 20th century and was known for ...

, Spain

Cultural centers

* Athenæum (Das Deutsche Haus), Indianapolis, Indiana, US *

The Athenaeum (South Africa) The Athenaeum (an institution for the promotion of literary or scientific learning) building is at the heart of a burgeoning creative industry in Port Elizabeth. It is situated at the corner of Castle Hill and Belmont Terrace in Nelson Mandela Bay ...

, 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 The Mexican Youth Athenaeum ( Spanish: ''Ateneo de la Juventud''), later known as the ''Athenaeum of Mexico'', was a Mexican civil association founded on October 28, 1909 with the purpose of working in favor of culture and art, by means of organizat ...

, Mexico City, Mexico * New Harmony's Atheneum, New Harmony, Indiana, US * Puerto Rican Athenaeum, the English name for Ateneo Puertorriqueño, Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico * Iași Athenaeum, Iași, Romania

Hotels

* The Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly, London, UK * Athenaeum Hotel at the Chautauqua Institution, 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 U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United State ...

, La Jolla, California, US *

Athenaeum of Philadelphia The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, located at 219 S. 6th Street between St. James Place and Locust Street in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a special collections library and museum founded in 1814 to collect materials ...

, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US *

Berkshire Athenaeum The Berkshire Athenaeum is a public library (1872) based on a previously private athenaeum, and now at 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, Massachusetts in the Berkshires, United States. Like many New England libraries, the Berkshire Athenaeum started a ...

, 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 subscription library, membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenaeum services. The instit ...

, Boston, Massachusetts, US * Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute, Dunedin, Otago, NZ * Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle, Washington, US * Melbourne Athenaeum, Melbourne, Australia * Minneapolis Athenæum, the name of the first library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US * Portsmouth Athenæum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US * Providence Athenaeum, Providence, Rhode Island, US *

Redwood Library and Athenaeum The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed ...

, Newport, Rhode Island, US *

Salem Athenaeum The Salem Athenaeum, founded in 1810, is one of the oldest membership libraries in the United States. The Athenaeum is located at 337 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts in the McIntire Historic District. History The Salem Athenaeum was founde ...

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

Westfield Athenaeum Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, United States. Westfield was first settled by Europeans in 1660. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population w ...

, Westfield, Massachusetts

Museums

Athenaeum (Alexandria, Virginia) The Athenaeum is a gallery of fine arts and a performance venue in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. It is also home to the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association since 1964. The building is an important example of Greek Revival architectur ...

, Alexandria, Virginia, US * Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, Illinois * Portsmouth Athenæum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US * Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, US *

Wilcannia Athenaeum The Wilcannia Athenaeum is a heritage listed, rusticated sandstone building in the town of Wilcannia, New South Wales. Built in 1883 and located at 37 Reid St, the Athenaeum was established to be an institution for community education, a school o ...

, Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia

Schools

Europe

Athenaeum (ancient Rome) The Athenaeum was a school (''ludus'') founded by the Emperor Hadrian for the promotion of literary and scientific studies (''ingenuarum artium''). The name "Athenaeum" came from the city of Athens, which was still regarded as the seat of inte ...

, a school founded by Emperor Hadrian * Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Athenaeum illustre, a late name for the University of Franeker (1585-1811) * Atheneum (school), formal name of main educational track of Dutch Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs * Atheneum, the main variant of the '' voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs'' (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 (disambiguation), "Athenaeum", also Athenæum or Atheneum, is used in the names of institutions or periodicals for literary, ...

, Limerick, Ireland * Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music, predecessor institute to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland * Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm or Anselmianum, the Benedictine Pontifical University in Rome

North America

Athenaeum (Tennessee) The Athenaeum Rectory is a historic building in Columbia, Tennessee that features both Gothic and Moorish architectural elements. Completed in 1837, the building originally served as the rectory for the Columbia Female Institute and as the res ...

, Columbia, Tennessee, US * Athenaeum of Ohio, a seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, US

Theaters

Athenaeum Theatre, Sydney The Athenaeum Theatre was an entertainment venue at 610 George Street on Brickfield Hill, Sydney, between Liverpool and Bathurst streets. For most of existence it was a venue for screening films and live acts, including lectures, but not live thea ...

, aka Atheneum Hall, early cinema * Howard Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, US * Melbourne Athenaeum, aka Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Australia *

Romanian Athenaeum The Romanian Athenaeum ( ro, Ateneul Român) is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania, and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's most prestigious concert hall an ...

, 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, Wiltshire, UK

Other uses

Athenaeum (Arcadia) Athenaeum or Athenaion ( grc, Ἀθηναῖον), was a town in the south of ancient Arcadia, and in the territory of Megalopolis. Pausanias writes that it was on the road from Megalopolis to Asea, and 20 stadia Stadia may refer to: * One of the ...

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

Athenaeum (fort) Athenaeum or Athenaion ( grc, Ἀθηναῖον), was a fortress in the south of ancient Arcadia, and in the territory of Megalopolis. It is described by Plutarch as a position in advance of the Lacedaemonian frontier (ἐμβολὴ τῆς Λακ ...

, a fort of ancient Arcadia, Greece *

Athenaeum Portrait The ''Athenaeum Portrait'', also known as The Athenaeum, is an Unfinished creative work, unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart of President of the United States, United States President George Washington. Created in 1796, it is Stuart's most nota ...

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