The
Musaeum or
Mouseion at Alexandria , which included the famous
Library of Alexandria, was an institution founded by
Ptolemy I Soter or, perhaps more likely, by
Ptolemy II Philadelphus. This original
Musaeum ("Institution of the Muses") was the home of music or poetry, a philosophical school and library such as
Plato's
Academy, also a storehouse of texts. It did not have a collection of works of art, rather it was an institution that brought together some of the best scholars of the
Hellenistic world, analogous to a modern
university. This original
Musaeum was the source for the modern usage of the word
museum.