The Muses are the nine inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek and Roman mythology.

Muse or muses may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

In general

  • Muse (person), a human inspiration for or influence on the works of a creative artist

Music

  • Muse (band), an English rock band
  • Muse Records, an American jazz record label
  • Muse (Grace Jones album) (1979)
  • Muse (Candy Lo album) (2000)
  • Muse (Jimin album) (2024)
  • Muse (EP), an EP by Muse
  • Muse (Jolin Tsai album) (2012)
  • Muse Group, a music software and education company

Film

  • Luster (film) or Muse, a 2002 film by Everett Lewis
  • Muse (2017 film), an English-language Spanish supernatural thriller film
  • Muse (2019 film), a British psychological horror film

Magazines

  • Muse (children's magazine)
  • Muse (Hong Kong magazine)

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Muse (novel), a 2013 novel by Mary Novik
  • "Muse" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 2000 TV episode
  • Muse Entertainment, Canadian independent film and television producer and service provider
  • Muse (character), a character from Marvel Comics and enemy of Daredevil
  • Muse, a character from DC Comics and enemy of Blue Beetle
  • Muse Communication, also known as simply Muse, a Taiwanese distributor and licensor
  • The Muse, character in The Muse ARG
  • Muse (web series), a pornographic drama series
  • "Muse" (Endeavour), a 2018 TV episode
  • The Muses (painting), a 1578 painting by Tintoretto

Education

  • Mercer University School of Engineering, in Georgia, US
  • Multicultural Urban Secondary English, a program at University of California, Berkeley, US

People

  • Muse (surname)
  • Muse Bihi Abdi (born 1948), president of Somaliland from 2017 to 2024
  • Muse Watson (born 1948), American actor
  • Muse, the United States Secret Service code name for Melania Trump

Places

  • Muse, Myanmar, a town on Shweli River in Shan State, Myanmar
  • Muse, Florida
  • Muse, Oklahoma

Science and technology

Computing

  • MusE, an open-source MIDI/audio sequencer for Linux
  • MuseScore, a music notation software
  • Adobe Muse, Adobe software to write HTML code
  • Muse Software, a software and computer game publisher and developer
  • Muse Group, a music software developer
  • Project MUSE, a digital archive

Spacecraft

  • MUSE (spacecraft), a 2026 proposed orbiter mission to the planet Uranus
  • Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE), planned NASA heliophysics mission
  • MUSES Program, Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft

Other uses in science and technology

  • Muse, a Chinese brand of home appliance and audio and video products owned by SpacemiT
  • Mac Muse, a Czech paraglider design
  • Muse cell, a stem cell
  • Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding, a Japanese analog HDTV television standard
  • MUSE LaserDisc (Hi-Vision LD), a short-lived high-definition version of LaserDisc based on the above
  • Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, an instrument at the Very Large Telescope
  • MUSE, a brand name for Prostaglandin E1, an erectile dysfunction treatment

Other uses

  • Muse (building), a condo development in Sunny Isles, Florida
  • Muse (clan), a Somalian clan
  • Muse (headband), a brand of brain activity sensing headband
  • MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, a science museum in Trento, Italy
  • Muse Air, American airline (1980–1987)
  • Tokorozawa Civic Cultural Centre Muse, a concert hall complex in Tokorozawa, Japan
  • Triadex Muse, an electronic digital musical instrument
  • Musicians United for Safe Energy, an anti-nuclear activist group founded in 1979

See also

  • The Muse (disambiguation)
  • Muze
  • Mews