The Sea

Waves, ships and shores

Storms and calms, harbours and whalers, bathers and the endless horizon. The sea was the subject that never sat still, so painters never stopped trying.

Walk in The whole museum

When it’s on

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