The Unseen Museum
The Unseen Museum is dedicated to images that were never created, because history denied them the right to exist. It seeks to redress that absence by giving form to gestures of affection, queer presences and expressions of sexual intimacy that the official imagery of past centuries excluded.
To explore these collections is to walk through a museum of what should have been — works imagined not as nostalgic fantasies, but as acts of restitution and visibility.
Here, invention becomes repair. Each image opens a space where those once silenced can finally inhabit the shared realm of culture.
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The Old Master Workshop with Model
Voluptas Virilis (Virile Sensuality)
Dionysus at the Rabbit Hole
The Lovers of Toledo
Sacred Band of Thebes, Epaminondas and Cephisodorus
Hiero of Syracuse and Diodorus among the Flocks
The Abduction of Abderos by Heracles
Don Juan of Austria in His Gallery in Brussels, Surrounded by His Gentlemen
Cowboys at Rest
Body and Soul in Chiaroscuro
Achilles and Xanthos
A Midsummer Night’s Rim
Sepulchral Kiss
That Give Delight and Hurt Not
A Plate from the Service of the Duke of Choiseul-Stainville
The Covenant of David and Jonathan
The Progress of Love – At Full Attention
Fired Up in Blue & White
Wanderers above the Sea of Fog
The Radiant Instant

