Past Exhibitions & Projects

We displayed a series of previously unseen sculptures by acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone, on display amongst the Museum’s historic Collection.

Curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding, this exhibition explored Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore.

This family-friendly exhibition explored how Hetty Feather has brought the history of the Foundling Hospital to life.

Children from Great Ormond Street Hospital made art inspired by Jacqueline Wilson's much-loved book Hetty Feather.

Child’s Play brought together an exhibition of photographs, a symposium and a book by artist Mark Neville, who works at the intersection of art and documentary.

Children from Great Ormond Street Hospital made fortune-telling games to share their hopes and wishes for the future.

This in-focus display explored the treatment and care of disabled children by the Foundling Hospital in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This exhibition considered a fundamental yet little-examined aspect of life at the Foundling Hospital - food

Young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital created medical jokes to share their experiences of treatment and isolation.

Acclaimed artist Michael Craig-Martin produced a new large-scale work for the Picture Gallery.

Young patients from Great Ormond Street Hospital created animations and medicine bottles inspired by the eighteenth-century medical recipes of Foundling Hospital Governor, Dr Richard Mead

A major exhibition curated by Cornelia Parker, featuring the work of over sixty artists from a range of creative disciplines.