The first scholarly research institute, a building in which
scholars dined together and produced encyclopedias of knowledge and was
established during the Hellenistic Greece was called the Museum. It was a
center of research, with laboratories and observatories. It has scholars such
Euclid and Eratosthenes working there. The word museum comes from a Greek word
which means a place or temple dedicated to the Muses. As popularly known, Muses
were the patron divinities of arts in Greek mythology.
