Athenaeum

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Athenaeum, also Athenæum or Atheneum, is used in the names of institutions or periodicals for literary, scientific, or artistic study. It may also be used in the names of educational institutions. The name is formed from the name of the classical Greek goddess Athena (the goddess of wisdom) in the same way that museum is formed from muse (the goddesses of culture).

Some well-known examples include:

• Athenaeum—a London literary magazine published between 1828 and 1921.
• The Athenaeum in Columbia, Tennessee
• The Athenaeum Hotel in Piccadilly, London.
• The Athenaeum Club in London.
• The Athenaeum, Paris—an academic institution that existed in the early nineteenth century.
• The Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• The Glasgow Athenaeum, established in 1847, now the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
• The Athenaeum of Philadelphia in , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest
• The The Athenaeumin Chicago—a theater and performing arts center, opened in 1911.
• The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut
• The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, which hosts more than one hundred dinner and lecture events with distinguished speakers each year at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
• (spelled as Atheneum):
  • Type of secondary school in the Netherlands. Almost the same as Gymnasium, but without Latin and Greek.
  • Type of secondary school in Belgium, providing general education (including Latin and Greek) and belonging to the official school network.
• The Athenaeum in Cincinnati, Ohio, succeeded by St. Xavier High School.
• The Athanaeum Theatre and Library in Melbourne, Australia
• The Athenaeum, official student newspaper of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
• The Athenaeum, originally a gathering place German-Americans in Indianapolis.
• Ateneum, an art museum in Helsinki, Finland

In publishing:

• Atheneum Books is a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster

In music:

• Athenaeum—a rock band from Greensboro, North Carolina—and their eponymous album.