Past Exhibitions & Projects

On the 300th anniversary year of the coronation of George I, this exhibition explored George Frideric Handel and his music for royal occasions.

Four contemporary photographers explored issues of motherhood and loss in an exhibition curated by Susan Bright.

Leading ceramic artist Clare Twomey inscribed individual good deeds onto over 1,000 cups and saucers, encouraging visitors to undertake a good deed in exchange for keeping the cup.

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