Athenaeum is something of a wet dream for anyone who is even faintly interested in books and magazines. A proper bookstore with over 50,000 titles in stock, established in 1996 on Spui square in the heart of Amsterdam, they included a Nieuwscentrum a few years later, which has pretty much everything in terms of periodicals and magazines, ranging from all the major global newspaper to the smallest independent titles. The fact that they were one of the very first stores outside of Germany to carry mono.kultur just shows their zeal in assembling anything that is worth the paper it’s printed on. In short: an essential stop on your bike ride through Amsterdam.
Athenaeum
Spui 14-16
Amsterdam
