What is The Athenaeum?
The Athenaeum is building a set of online tools for studying the humanities. Whether you are an armchair historian, a teacher, or just someone with an interest in history, archaeology, philosophy, or the arts, we hope to provide new ways to explore and interact with all sorts of material. It is a never-ending quest, and we welcome your involvement. Take a moment, browse the site, and let us know what you think!

What makes this site unique? Find out here.

February Upload Contest
First place is Baker's Dozen with 173 images uploaded.
Second place is Kozhin Simon with 4 images uploaded.
Third place is labdev with 3 images uploaded.

Improved artwork lists

One of our most common requests is thumbnails for those artists who have more than 100 artworks. Today I made several changes to the artwork listing pages, including paged thumbnails of 100 at a time for artists like Monet, Sargent, and others. Enjoy!
(Entered by BeaumFedeSuek on Monday November 3rd, 2008 1:27 PM)

Editing person records

It's fixed now. :-)
(Entered by BeaumFedeSuek on Monday September 29th, 2008 10:02 PM)

Recent changes

Recently a couple of changes have been made here at The Athenaeum:
- I wrote a script that makes it easier to clean out the offensive entries from the Action Items page.
- I fixed the pages that allow users to add new artists.

There are still many little things to catch up on, but the site is pretty stable and clean at the moment.

(Entered by BeaumFedeSuek on Saturday September 27th, 2008 1:50 PM)

Lots of little things

I continue to work on little things around the site. Some recent developments:
· Removed the old Amazon donation link and updated it to a PayPal link on our "How can I help?" page
· Updated the look of the forums a bit, and added a link back to our home page
· Updated the museum page to show how many artworks each museum has on our site. It's sortable, and you can link directly to the artworks from the museum list.
· I'm working on a set of tools that (hopefully by August) will allow us to run uploading contests and award CASH PRIZES for the most uploads. Stay tuned. :-)

(Entered by BeaumFedeSuek on Saturday July 12th, 2008 1:36 PM)
Our most recent artworks
Village de Labastide du Vert et son Eglise - by Henri Martin
(Entered Monday February 8th at 7:22 PM by user Baker's Dozen)
Vue sur le Lot de Saint Cirq Lapopie - by Henri Martin
(Entered Monday February 8th at 7:21 PM by user Baker's Dozen)
Vue de Labastide du Vert - by Henri Martin
(Entered Monday February 8th at 7:20 PM by user Baker's Dozen)
Vue de Puy l Eveque - by Henri Martin
(Entered Monday February 8th at 7:20 PM by user Baker's Dozen)
Vue de Port l Eveque - by Henri Martin
(Entered Monday February 8th at 6:58 PM by user Baker's Dozen)