Past Exhibitions & Projects

Hear from Dr Claire Phillips about the medical care at the Foundling Hospital and how it paved the way for paediatric care.

Discover works created in response to the Foundling Museum’s collection of fabric tokens

Discover the close-knit world of the Georgian music industry, where not what you knew, but who you knew, was of greatest importance.

Discover eighteenth-century foundling and sailor George King, whose first-hand account of the Battle of Trafalgar we are sharing for the first time.

In Ship’s Tack, Ingrid Pollard brings together fragile ceramic sculptures and prints of paper boats, with new textile works.

Visit the Introductory Gallery to discover a display that looks at the stigmas young people who have experienced the care system have felt.

This was a programme of live and digital events curated by children’s author and illustrator, Lauren Child CBE.

This exhibition showed works from Quentin Blake in two emotive series, Children and Dogs, and Children, Birds & Dogs.

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.

Jonny Banger, designer and owner of subversive fashion label Sports Banger, showed the work he gathered from the nation’s children during lockdown.

Discover the life and work of Richard Leveridge, a leading singer on the 18th-century London stage.

This first display in our series I'm Sent To Find, If Fortune's Kind, reveals the curious story of two twins admitted to the Hospital on Christmas Day in 1767.