Past Exhibitions & Projects

This exhibition revealed the heart-wrenching stories of the Foundling Hospital tokens, over 250 years after they were left by mothers with their babies.

This exhibition celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of nineteenth-century writer and campaigner of social reform, Charles Dickens.

In the summer of 2012 we celebrated Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, with the biggest UK exhibition on the Gardens in over forty years.

Children and young people took over the Museum for a weekend of events in this project by Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA.

This exhibition presented recent work by Quentin Blake, commissioned by four hospitals in the UK and France.

Discover Soup for 100, an annual event that brings together 100 creative people in arts and education.

Foundling Voices featured the experiences of 74 former pupils whose memories of their childhoods in the first half of the 20th century have been graphically preserved in audio interviews. 

Fabric swatches from the eighteenth century tell the moving stories of mothers and the babies they gave up to the Foundling Hospital

Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego showed new and related works at the Foundling Museum throughout the eighteenth-century interiors as well as outside spaces

The Foundling was a multi-discipline, video and sound installation by the artist Terry Smith.

The Foundling Museum marked the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death (14 April 1759) with this exhibition.

John Kindness disguised the Museum's exhibition gallery as an 18th-century room to harmonise with the original rooms in the Museum.