Asylum

Asylum may refer:

 Psychiatric hospital, once known as an insane asylum or mental asylum, is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness
 Destitute Asylum, an institution built in the 1850s in Adelaide, Australia for isolating cases of extreme poverty
 Orphan asylum, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
 Political asylum, also known as Right of asylum
 Asylum seeker, also known as Refugee

In music:
 Asylum 45, a concept album by the Dutch band Non-Divine
 Asylum Records, an American record label geared primarily in hip-hop music
 Asylum (album), by the American hard rock band Kiss
 Asylum (Legendary Pink Dots album)
 Soul Asylum, a band formed in 1983, best known for their single "Runaway Train"
 Asylum, a band from Croatia formed in 2007. www.myspace.com/asylumcro 
 Asylum (song), a single by The Orb from their 1997 album Oblivion

In entertainment:
 The Asylum, a movie studio
 Asylum Entertainment  an American entertainment company founded in 1992

In fiction:
 Asylum (movie) of the Patrick McGrath novel, made in 2005
 Asylum (television), 1996 UK comedy series
 Asylum (comic), a comic series
 Asylum (1972 movie), a 1972 horror movie with Peter Cushing
 Asylum (2007 movie), a 2007 horror movie from director David R. Ellis
 Asylum (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
 Asylum (Supernatural), an Episode of TV series starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles

In non-fiction:
 Asylums, a nonfiction book by Erving Goffman.

In gaming
 Asylum (1991 video game), an overhead shoot 'em up arcade game released by Leland in 1991
 Asylum (1986 video game), released for the Commodore 64 in 1986
 The last of the Shackled City Dungeons & Dragons adventures
 ShadowMan (1999 video game) - Asylum, a big black tower what Legion have built.
 The predecessor to the 1986 Commodore 64 game was a version which utilized ASCII graphics for the original IBM PC in 1982

In radio
 The Asylum (radio show), aired in the 1980s on WMBR