Athenaeum Explained
Athenaeum may refer to:
Books and periodicals
Clubs and societies
(alphabetical by city)
- Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, US
- Liverpool Athenaeum, Liverpool, UK
- Athenaeum Club, London, UK
- German Athenaeum, London, UK
- Ateneo de Madrid, Spain
- Manchester Athenaeum, Manchester, UK
- Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, Australia
- Athenaeum at Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, US
- The Plymouth Athenaeum, Plymouth, UK
- Ateneo de Sevilla, Spain
Cultural centers
- Athenæum (Das Deutsche Haus), Indianapolis, Indiana, US
- The Athenaeum (South Africa), Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, US
- Caracas Athenaeum, Caracas, Venezuela
- Mexican Youth Athenaeum, 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
Libraries
- Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California, US
- Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
- Boston Athenæum, Boston, Massachusetts, US
- Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute, Dunedin, Otago, NZ
- , 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, Newport, Rhode Island, US
- Salem Athenaeum, Salem, Massachusetts, US
- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, US
- Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, Massachusetts
Museums
- Athenaeum (Alexandria, Virginia), Alexandria, Virginia, US
- Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, Illinois
- Portsmouth Athenæum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
- Wadsworth Atheneum, 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, 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, Limerick, Ireland
- Glasgow Athenaeum School of Music, predecessor institute to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Pontifical Athenaeum, an ecclesiastical university established or approved directly by the Holy See, composed of three main ecclesiastical faculties (Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law) and at least one other faculty.
- Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm or Anselmianum, the Benedictine Pontifical University in Rome
North America
Theaters
- Athenaeum Theatre, Sydney, aka Atheneum Hall, early cinema
- Howard Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, US
- Melbourne Athenaeum, aka Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, Australia
- Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, Romania
- The Plymouth Athenaeum, Plymouth, Devon, UK
- New Theatre Comique, known as Atheneum in New York City (1865)
- Warminster Athenaeum, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK
Other uses
See also
