The first scholarly research institute, a building in which scholars dined together and produced encyclopedias of knowledge, was established during Hellenistic Greece. What was it called?
the Museum
the Library
the Consortium
the Illuminati
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.
