The Mouseion · The Season · Gold and Light

Gold and Light

Festivals, candles and gilded things

Gold-ground icons, illuminated manuscripts, candlelit rooms and the festivals of light of many faiths: an exhibition for the darkest weeks of the year.

Walk inThe whole museum

When it’s on

In The Season’s hall, off the Hall: December 2026.

The works

The works are chosen when the exhibition is hung, a few days before it opens.

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere