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 most recent ones are at the end of the list
A Sunday in the Countryside with Albert and Émile
Champagne with Charlus
The Spirit of Amatory Christmases
Under the Red Ensign
Rainbow Stained Glass
Belle Époque
The loving Wrestlers
The Abduction of Cadmus
L'Ideale
Celestial Mechanics
The Radiant Instant
Wanderers above the Sea of Fog
Fired Up in Blue & White
The Progress of Love – At Full Attention
The Covenant of David and Jonathan
A Plate from the Service of the Duke of Choiseul-Stainville
That Give Delight and Hurt Not
Sepulchral Kiss
A Midsummer Night’s Rim
Achilles and Xanthos
The Old Master Workshop with Model
Body and Soul in Chiaroscuro
Cowboys at Rest
The Abduction of Abderos by Heracles
Hiero of Syracuse and Diodorus among the Flocks
Sacred Band of Thebes, Epaminondas and Cephisodorus
The Lovers of Toledo
Voluptas Virilis (Virile Sensuality)

