Past Exhibitions & Projects Filters Artists’ Projects Children & Families Exhibitions & Displays Talks Clear filters Exhibitions & Displays Charles Jennens: Patron & Polymath 13 May 2022 – 3 Jan 2023 This display brings together items reflecting the varied interests and achievements of the polymath Charles Jennens. Exhibitions & Displays Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics 1 Apr – 28 Aug 2022 An exhibition uncovering the world of superheroes, exploring the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees, and foster children. Exhibitions & Displays Mark Neville, Stop Tanks With Books Online 8 Mar – 28 Aug 2022 Stop Tanks With Books documents the lives of Ukrainians dealing with the trauma of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, since 2014. Exhibitions & Displays Don’t Ask The Dragon 4 Mar – 9 Oct 2022 A display exploring the collaborative process of creating this picture book, featuring original drawings, sketches and ideas. Artists’ Projects Love~in~Knots 8 Dec 2021 – 17 Jan 2022 Discover works created in response to the Foundling Museum’s collection of fabric tokens Exhibitions & Displays Friends with Benefits: Musical Networking in Georgian London 22 Oct 2021 – 1 May 2022 Discover the close-knit world of the Georgian music industry, where not what you knew, but who you knew, was of greatest importance. Exhibitions & Displays Fighting Talk: One Boy’s Journey from Abandonment to Trafalgar 15 Oct 2021 – 27 Feb 2022 Discover eighteenth-century foundling and sailor George King, whose first-hand account of the Battle of Trafalgar we are sharing for the first time. Exhibitions & Displays Ship’s Tack 15 Oct 2021 – 27 Feb 2022 In Ship’s Tack, Ingrid Pollard brings together fragile ceramic sculptures and prints of paper boats, with new textile works. Artists’ Projects Stigma 27 Sep 2021 – 28 Feb 2022 Visit the Introductory Gallery to discover a display that looks at the stigmas young people who have experienced the care system have felt. Exhibitions & Displays What do you think about when you think about nothing? 14 Jul – 26 Sep 2021 This was a programme of live and digital events curated by children’s author and illustrator, Lauren Child CBE. Exhibitions & Displays Quentin Blake: Gifted 25 Jun – 26 Sep 2021 This exhibition showed works from Quentin Blake in two emotive series, Children and Dogs, and Children, Birds & Dogs. Exhibitions & Displays Forgotten Foundlings: Uncovering the life of Thomas Trowbridge 31 Oct 2020 – 31 Aug 2021 The second in our series I'm Sent To Find, If Fortune's Kind, this display explored the life of one of the few foundlings of colour. See more