The Letter

Writing, reading and the written word

People reading, writing and waiting for letters, beside calligraphy and illuminated pages. Words as images and images of words.

Walk in The whole museum

When it’s on

In The Season’s hall, off the Hall: February 2027.

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