Had my wedding here prior to covid. We did a tasting prior to the wedding the food was great at the tasting seemed not to be has tasty at the actual wedding. But these people went above and beyond to bring my vision to life they have everything planned and are great at keeping the event on time. They made sure I had the perfect day.

Just a great place to attend an event. Great architecture, nice historical building that can host multiple weddings at the same time and no one would ever know.

Very nice old building in downtown Columbus. If you cant find street parking there are open inexpensive parking lots within a block or two. Restrooms were very clean. Concert area was large enough to accommodate a couple hundred people. We went to see Phineas and Wolves At The Gate and had an amazing time!!!

Nice venue. Hard to get in, but other than that it was fun!

Beautiful walls and architecture. Staff is very helpful. Their catalog of decorations needs to be overhauled though. Trying to rent their decorations was frustrating.

Saw Paul Thorn concert in a wonderful venue.

Married my wife here. The staff was attentive and helpful throughout the entire process, and the venue/reception was absolutely gorgeous. It went on without any problems, and I could not ask for more on the most important day of my life. Highly recommend the Columbus Athenaeum!

Nice venue. Went for The Word Alive. Definitely seemed super fancy and nice. Even the bathrooms were super fancy. Im definitely used to metal shows being in bars with overflowing toilets. So this was nice. Would recommend for a wedding or nice play!

Great food, great service, wonderful staff and beautiful rooms and building! I would not have had my reception any other place!!!

This is a GREAT venue for weddings and whatever type of large parties you would like to have. You can have your wedding and reception at the same place but in different rooms. Im not sure how the food is handled but at the wedding and reception I attended there was hors doeuvres and dinner, and they served both along with the cake. There was also a photo booth.All in all it was a blast!!

Showed up to listen to Matt Heckler and The Lost Dog Street Band. The experience was 🔥!!! The venue was awesome and I hope to experience it for a long time to come.

Beautiful historic venue

Classic Venue! Beautiful Wedding here!

Great venue for weddings and private events. We are on the preferred vendor list here so I get to see them work a lot. They do a great job

Very beautiful venue. It provided an intimate performance for the show.

I go to a lot of concerts and this really is the best venue in Columbus. Great acoustics and cheap drinks.

Beautiful and historical. A venue for any occasion.

Terrible venue. We had to cancel the reception due to COVID and they tried to keep ALL of our money. We had to sue the Athenaeum to get even part of our money back. And they kept thousands for nothing! Although we didnt get to have our dinner - the food at the tasting was not good at all. And they wouldnt provide vegetarian dishes for the tasting so we had to order foods we had never tasted for the reception. Stay away from the Athenaem if you want your night to be special. I DO NOT recommend the Anthenaeum for anything.

Went for prom, and had the greatest night of my life.

Beautiful location, lots of room, ample parking, and affordable. Its great that they host or rent out to parties of all type. Weddings all the way to animal rescue groups. We had a great time and look forward to the next event we are invited to.

We attended a wedding at the Antenaeum in Columbus and it was a stunning venue. Everywhere you look there are beautiful floors, gorgeous bathroom details, lovely vintage fixtures, pretty old beams.We attended the wedding ceremony is a really neat old theatre inside the building. It was a beautiful place for a wedding ceremony! We moved to the top story of a to a two story grand room for spies and cocktails. The staff was so polite and friendly. The space was really neat!If you are considering this venue for your event, go for it! As an out of town guest, it was a real treat to enjoy a piece of Columbuss history.Parking is not awesome, (its downtown, thats to be expected;) so leave enough time to find a spot!

Came here for a prom years ago and recently attended a Rescued Ohio fundraising event. Always seem to putnon nice events!

Excellent venue.

Nice sound, nostalgic theatre

Saw Justin Furstenfeld for his open book tour here. Was a beautiful venue and the atmosphere was amazing.

Very beautiful wedding venue!

Attended a conference here a couple of weeks ago. The facilities were nice. I was in several rooms on the right side of the building. We used both floors. Bathrooms on both floors too so lines were not too long.They served a buffet lunch of soup, salad and baked potatoes. The food was good. It did take several minutes to restock the lettuce bowl, otherwise the buffet was well stocked. Food was delicious. I chose the Italian wedding soup.We had to park in a garage one block north of the building. Cost $10 for the day.

Classy old venue!!

Amazing setting. Great sound. Nice lighting.

Saw Cody Ko and Noel Miller here. It was awesome. The place is super old, but I feel it just adds to the aesthetic and atmosphere. And there is a parking deck right next to it so 5 stars lol.

Beautiful and historic - very friendly staff and well organized.

Beautiful architecture! Lots of stairs but an elevator was provided ☺

Beautiful building!

Great venue!

Great Venue

Its big and nice. Food service was good too.

The Athenaeum is a truly remarkable place. I first discovered this venue when I attended an Underoath concert there, and I saw that they were advertising that they also hosted weddings. My then-fiancé and I went back for multiple tours and fell in love with the venue. It’s full of history, and beauty, and I have not seen anything like it before. I love the Athenaeum. We booked with them last year, and our coordinator was Jackie. Jackie was very attentive, helpful, kind, and responsive. I cannot thank Jackie enough for all of the effort that she put into our wedding. She truly was such a joy to work with. The staff are all kind, and easy to work with. It makes me sad for multiple reasons that our wedding was canceled (not because of the Athenaeum), and I did not get to see all of our efforts unfold. But I can vouch that the Athenaeum is an amazing venue, and has amazing people working for them.

Beautiful place

Great theater sound ambience

This was a fun wedding venue. They had three weddings the night we were there and they were very separate and you couldnt hear the music from the other weddings. Beautiful classic building.

Fantastic venue to catch a show!! I drove over 12 hours to catch a show that Magic Dick was featured in. Great show! Great crowd. The promoter overhead me talking to a fellow fan, and loved that I had made the trek from MA to see the show. They have a nice spot to pick up drinks and treats. They also do weddings! The promoter has great vision for this place....Im sure this place will be around for the count!

Not impressed with the staff more so the security here. They tried to tell us we had to leave and werent allowed to stand on the sidewalk that is public property. They went out of there way to come to us to tell us we had to leave the area. There was people they walked past literally standing in the middle of the sidewalk and came straight to us. Ive had better experience at literally every other venue. Just hope your favorite band doesnt get booked here..

First time seeing a concert at this funky venue. Quite enjoyed it. The layout is so good. Room for standing and dancing also plenty of seats. Roomy seats, not squishy seats. It was a great experience!

Fabulous place. They are always so helpful and accommodating. We hosted a holiday party for about 140 and everyone raved about the food and desserts.

Sound was absolutely terrible for the Peter Murphy 40 years of Bauhaus show. He is a legend and deserves better! You couldnt hear anything over the kick drum and the piercing feedback that seemed to get worse as the evening progressed, ruined some of my favorite songs. I really wish I hadnt gone at all. I would much rather have missed it, imagining what a great show it might have been, rather than having such a lousy experience of a show that I was really looking forward to.

Not a bad seat in the house for a concert. Sound was good. I was surprised they offered concerts. Thought it was strictly ba wedding/event venue.

This is probably one of my new favorite concert venues. There is stadium seating on the sides and back and a large pit area. There are two downfalls to this venue. 1 - the bathrooms are on every other level and you have to navigate the stairs to get to them. 2 - the bar is situated in between the stairs and the back of the venue. As we came up the stairs we ran into the line for drinks and had to push our way through it to get to the show.

Great venue for a wedding.The building itself feels vintage and the staff did an amazing job decorating. Service was fabulous.There are a number of different levels to the building which make it very practical to transition between the service and the reception smoothly.One of the better venues for a weeping that I have been to.

The service, the prices, location. The place is incredible. Please consider it for your event

We had our wedding in October in the Olympian room. It was absolutely beautiful!! Christine became our coordinator half way through our planning process, our 1st coordinator left. We were a little nervous to have someone new join us in the middle of our process, but she came in and did an amazing job!! She meet with us and instantly understood what we were going for with the look of our wedding. She was so easy to work with and was very detail oriented she did an absolutely amazing job with all of our ideas and setting everything up to look exactly like we wanted it too!! I honestly can’t say enough good things about Christine!

This is a nice, cozy restaurant with great food and excellent service. I highly recommend it!

Beautiful building and architecture, but disappointed in the food. My vegetarian dinner was pretty much hard green beans and a pile of rice.

Awesome experience when I came to see Switchfoot perform, the flow of seating was great and the service was exceptional :)

The staff at the Columbus Athenaeum are experts at customer service and hospitality. We had a phenomenal wedding at an affordable price in a historic and beautiful location!From the moment we inquired about having our wedding at the Athenaeum to the final load out at the wedding - every single detail was executed perfectly by their staff.The food is exquisite! We have a very foodie family and everyone raved about our wedding food. We had a buffet style diner but the staff served my husband and I and made sure we had drinks at all times. :) We were actually able to enjoy ourselves at our wedding.Every time I stopped in to make a payment or drop off a contract, the staff made me feel like I was their only client, when in fact they do hundreds events a year.We did lots of research on several types of venues including DIY style, and the cost for 160 guests at the Athenaeum was one of the most affordable options. And they did most of the work!

Nice venue! Always enjoy playing piano at the Columbus aethenaeum. Very large venue with many different rooms for any size of event. Parking is always an issue as there arent many or any reserved spots available but that can be said of many places downtown.

Such a good venue for live music. Its clean and beautifully renovated.

Beautiful building, has on site lunch restaurant called the Pine Room. Good, reasonably priced food.

Absolutely horrible. If you’re planning a wedding and want to choose your own vendors, stay away from this place. They have a “preferred vendor” list that you have to choose from, otherwise you have to pay extra to have your own vendors.Unfortunately their vendors are not the best, they just pay them to be on their list. Since they are on their list, the vendors charge more because you have to use one of them.They will actually talk you out of hiring another outside vendor because of this.The most unprofessional, dishonest, untrustworthy place I’ve ever seen.If you want your own wedding, please go somewhere else. I will do the same and refer any other venue besides this place, since they said it would be in our best interest to use their “preferred” vendors. Laughable.

Drove 6 hours to attend a concert here and waited for hours outside in the December cold to make sure we got good spots in line. Then they told us they don’t want people waiting in line and we’d have to leave and come back when doors opened. It was extremely frustrating, especially since they didn’t come out and tell us this until an hour or so before the event. The venue itself was fine and the sound was good, but the lack of respect for the concert-goers was really disappointing and illogical. They really need to rework their system for concerts—it’s standard practice to wait in line and the huge crowd that resulted instead right before doors opened was just stressful.

Beautiful!

Saw Sleep there a week or so ago. It was a real weird venue to have a concert like that in, but it was very nice. Kind of dated, but maybe thats part of the charm?

Wow absolutely the best! We attended a wedding and reception 💐 for a family member the ceremony was beautiful 💕 The appetizers with the cocktail hour really delish 😀 our main course dinners were truly amazing choices 😄 very good, they really go all the way to keep food available to be served buffet style like for us tonight, theyre all out to accommodate everyone 👍 For any type of function you really might want to look into this fabulous, fantastic, and FUN facility!!!

Unique and awesome.An institution, such as a literary club or scientific academy, for the promotion of learning.

So beautiful. Went for the auction to benefit RescuedOHIO

👍 Great Event for 🔥 Firefighters toys for tots Great food and services

Was here for a wedding. First time visiting and this building is gorgeous. The architecture is amazing. I was constantly looking at different parts of the building in awe. Wish I had considered this as a wedding venue for myself now.

Spectacular space for events. Great staff

Once each year for the past several years, a small group of us has gathered at The Columbus Athenaeum on the Thursday before the annual Stonewall Columbus Pride Brunch to pack the 600-or-so gift bags that will be given to each participant during that annual event.Before packing the 600-or-so brunch bags, many of the bag-packers meet in advance to share lunch together at The Pine Room, a small restaurant within The Columbus Athenaeum that is open to the public but is well-hidden except for a small sandwich sign that is displayed on the sidewalk during open hours. The Pine Room is located at the north end of the first-floor hallway.If you ever are in the area on a weekday between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., I recommend eating at The Pine Room. The staff is friendly; the food is quite good and reasonably-priced.The Columbus Athenaeum is a wonderful old building but the lighting level in most of the rooms is extremely low. I actually had to leave this years gift bag packing event moments after we had started to pack the bags because I had been unable to see anything.

Very nice venue. They have very good security. I was able to park 3 blocks away.

No A/C refreshments were expensive. It was 60 outside and 95 inside. Wont be back

Attended one of the most unique and gorgeous weddings I have been to here. The location, ambiance, food, service and entertainment were all exceptional (and thankfully unforgettable).

I attended a wedding here recently and although the place was beautiful, the food and the service staff were great the event manager was terrible. I watched a grown man slam his fists on the bar while yelling at his two female bartenders in front of 100 or so guests while the wedding was still going on. No manager should talk to their employees like that, no matter the circumstances, let alone in front of guests. It was rude, disrespectful and uncalled for. I would never work with him simply out of principle and I will be telling others I know not to have events here as well.

Great new venue for Columbus. Not a bad seat in the place.

Beautiful place. Our room was nicely sized for our not humongous party, but theres larger rooms too. However, my party was on the 3rd floor and the mens bathroom was on the 4th. Then I found the only toilet was out of order and the other one was on the first floor. That one had 2 toilets, one of which was missing a seat.

I went there for the i see stars concert which was very good you guys rock. It was a nice small auditorium. A very historical and beautiful building. I prefer smaller a auditorium. Nationwide arena shot are nice but its like spending 300$ to watch a large screen tv i do that at home for free. Im looking forward to going back. Also if anyone is looking for a place to have a wedding this is it. The building is huge. More then just a auditorium. Dining area ect... Ok its sooo pretty the bathrooms are like beautiful.

I recently attended the House of Heroes 10th Anniversary Show, and it was off the chain! The band was incredible, and the historic downtown venue was pretty cool. My only complaint was the uncomfortable, un-padded solid wooden seats (which arent a problem for a standing-room-only show, but are something to consider if you are attending another type of event).

Great venue for intimate concerts. Lord the steps tho! 😉

We went to a concert here. Didnt see the entire building but what we did see was breathtakingly beautiful. I can see why so many weddings are held there. The restrooms are also extremely nice. Extremely.

High quality performance venue that is super intimate and classy.

The Pine room is an excellent place for lunch. Try the meatball sub, its really good!

Saw Leonid and Friends.Bartenders friendly, AC was coldA great Show

Originally a Scottish Rite Masonic Temple (at 33 N. 4th, no less... or is it 32?), the owners have kept its interior in tact, complete with much of the original furniture. This is an event space with many types of rooms for almost any purpose. Promoters started booking bands here and its a brilliant thing! Previously, it had been mainly a place for weddings & other celebrations or even meetings. There is only street or garage parking available nearby. Nonetheless, its a gorgeous and historic downtown Columbus building and any opportunity to visit should be taken!

A beautiful wedding with a perfect couple! Definitely a great spot for many occasions.

The mushroom soup was not as good as Campbell from a can. The strawberry salad and dressing was not good either.

Loved loved loved The Columbus Athenaeum! We worked with Sarah and Gina and they were kind, professional, and brilliant! The food was amazing (we had the chicken bru blanc and the ratatouille {which was our vegetarian/vegan entree}) and all the vendors drop offs went smoothly. The bartenders were amazing and our guests loved the photo booth! The decorations were beautiful and tasteful and the whole night ran so smoothly!

Great place to have lunch during the week. The Pine Room Restaurant serves great quality, delicious food from 11:00am to 2:00pm, Monday thru Friday. This is the same staff who provide fare for events. Check out this hidden gem.

Its a great venue and the staff are very polite

The staff is very courteous when attending events. The restaurant inside (Pine Room) is quick and serves great food!

Great intimite place to see music beautiful theartre. Acoustics very nice. Very profesional help a great plus to Dowtown Columbus

Saw a concert here last night, had a great time and enjoyed having the option to stand or sit during the show. The building is beautiful.

Celebrate your special day in a gorgeous piece of Columbus history.

Great food, service and prices

This is a beautiful place to have a weeding, party, meeting, etc... The staff is very helpful and the kitchen makes great food. Parking is off-site but they have a great valet service.

Loved the Venue had more than one room for different ceremonies. Staff was friendly and food was very good

Lacking air for the summer.

Amanda and I had a great time photographing a beautiful wedding here @TheColumbusAthenaeum. The wedding was very classic 1920s. Look forward to anyone who is looking for or needing a wedding photographer.

The historic building is beautiful. The staff catered the lunch and it was delicious. I would definitely recommend this venue.

Was in a friends wedding here and it was a really beautiful place to have the ceremony. The food was amazing too. Very cool place.

Very pretty venue for a wedding. However very poor lighting, and is a nightmare for any video or photo vendors

The owner mark worst person I have ever meet, does not have any decency to talk to clients in front of kids. Just cos we were ready to take down event and our cars were park on the loading dock he just lost it and went crazy on us and started yelling. Telling a vendor not to take any jobs here anymore just cos my car was parked on his dock. Awful person to work with and if you are a vendor beware of it cos the owner of the building does not treat people right. Very very rude person and will never take any job in future to work at this venue. We have done enough events around town and at all sorts of venue but never seen a rude person like Mark. Management staff is very nice but they even know his attitude and also complain how hard it’s to work with him. Above all if you planning a ethnic wedding at this Venue than we strongly suggest not to use this venue as the owner likes to discriminate people from oversees. Please think twice before you book this venue cos of the owner and please consider the other venue around downtown cos the management staff are 100 times better then this place.