Beginnings

Dawn, spring and new life

Sunrises, first blossoms, births, departures and fresh starts: three thousand years of art about the moment something begins.

Walk in The whole museum

When it’s on

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