Past Exhibitions & Projects

Stop Tanks With Books documents the lives of Ukrainians dealing with the trauma of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, since 2014.

A display exploring the collaborative process of creating this picture book, featuring original drawings, sketches and ideas.

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.

In this landmark project renowned artists give 25,000+ looked-after children visibility after 280 years, commemorating the lost faces of children given into care between 1741-1954.