The Model

Who sat for the picture

The people who sat, stood and posed: muses, servants, children, friends and paid models, and what we know of their lives.

Walk in The whole museum

When it’s on

In The Season’s hall, off the Hall: March 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