Chicago Athenaeum, Architecture and design museum in Galena, Illinois, United States

The Chicago Athenaeum is a private museum of architecture and design based in Galena, Illinois, housed in a former brewery building that served as Fulton Brewery, later Galena Brewery, Eulberg & Sons. It keeps offices and operations in Chicago, Schaumburg and Galena, plus Dublin and Athens, and holds collections on Chicago architectural history, Chicago industrial design from 1900 to 1950, European and American furniture, Japanese graphics, and an archive of photographs, drawings and publications.

Founded in Chicago in 1988 by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, the museum moved to an old barn at 190 S. Roselle Road in Schaumburg in 1998. The village evicted it in 2004, and it relocated to Galena, where it occupies a former brewery building used successively by Fulton Brewery, Galena Brewery and Eulberg & Sons.

Since 1996 the museum has run the annual Good Design Awards, founded in Chicago in 1950 by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. and now revived by the Athenaeum. It also co-organises the American Architecture Awards, the International Architecture Awards and the Green Good Design Awards with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The Galena site occupies the former Fulton Brewery, later Galena Brewery, Eulberg & Sons.

The museum's main site is in Galena, in a former brewery building once used by Fulton Brewery and later Galena Brewery, Eulberg & Sons. Offices and operations also continue in Chicago and Schaumburg, plus Dublin and Athens. Check with the institution before travelling, since exhibitions and sites vary.

The sculpture park tied to the museum lies in Schaumburg, not Galena, on a site at 201 Schaumburg Court behind the Prairie Center for the Arts. It holds contemporary works by American and international sculptors, among them Dennis Oppenheim's "Heavy Dog Kiss" and Jarle Rosseland's "Vineland".