About Foundling Museum
The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children.
The museum houses a nationally important art collection as well as the world's largest privately amassed collection of Handel memorabilia.
The museum examines the work of the Foundling Hospital's founder Thomas Coram, as well as the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel, both major benefactors of the institution.
It also illustrates how the Foundling Hospital's charity work for children still carries on today through the child care organisation Coram.
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Foundling Museum,
40 Brunswick Square,
London,
WC1N 1AZ
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The Foundling Museum in central London has been given until September to secure its long term future as launches a fundraising appeal.
When the Foundling Hospital was set up nearly 300 years ago to care for London’s orphans, what few could have expected is how many children would come from Africa and Asia.
A museum that owes its origins to supporting orphans is taking a look at how orphans are represented in comic strips.
A new exhibition opening is all about Superheroes, but with a twist — they were all orphaned or abandoned at birth.
Given away by his mother, named after a King, fought at Trafalgar and left a rare diary of the life of a sailor, this is an exhibition about the life of one man with an unusual story to tell.
Fancy a Friday evening of fancy clothes and sugary delights with the Georgian Dining Academy? That’s what’s on offer at the Foundling Museum in December.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length film as a director, and there will be a special screening in the atmospheric Wilton’s Music Hall.
At a time when there’s much ado about statues of slave traders, here’s a statue of a Good Man, sitting outside the building he is most famous for.
What would happen if lots of children decorated an official government letter and sent them to an artist? An exhibition of subversive thoughts is what — and that’s opened at the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury.
As part of an occasional series of tastings of drinks that achieved their heyday in the 18th century, the Foundling Museum will be hosting an evening of port tastings in March. Their
Last night I (along with some friends) had tickets to a gin tasting event being hosted by the Foundling Museum. The Museum is on the site of Britain’s original home for abandoned children and London’s first ever public art gallery…
An apt follow up to my recent tour of the Beefeater Distillery is this evening event at the Foundling Museum – a guided tasting of different gins being held on a Friday evening (7th Nov), so an ideal way to…
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