Forgotten Foundlings: Uncovering the life of Thomas Trowbridge
31 Oct 2020 — 10 Jan 2021
- Exhibitions & Displays
A display exploring ongoing research into identifying foundlings of colour through the story of Thomas Trowbridge.
A display exploring ongoing research into identifying foundlings of colour through the story of Thomas Trowbridge.
A major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits over 500 years
A small display of contemporary works of art from the Foundling Museum Collection.
Discover what it was like to go to a show in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain
An exhibition exploring artist William Hogarth’s innovative use of sound
New work by contemporary artist, Nicola Bealing, complementing Hogarth & The Art of Noise
Discover how Handel’s music was created by female singers in this Handel Gallery display
A photographic exhibition which documented the living conditions of London’s most disadvantaged children
Remarkable women who have shaped contemporary British society choose objects that speak to them from the Museum’s Collection
Marking 100 years of female suffrage, we presented a landmark exhibition highlighting the role of women in the establishment and running of London’s Foundling Hospital
A short film by Foundling Fellow Lily Cole
Jodie Carey created three new installations especially for the Museum
This special display presented original illustrations by award-winning illustrator Michael Foreman produced for the children’s book Lucky Button
The relationship between language and the living world was celebrated in this exhibition of poetry and illustration
Curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding, this exhibition explored Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore
This Autumn we display a series of previously unseen sculptures by acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone, on display amongst the Museum’s historic Collection
This family-friendly exhibition explored how Hetty Feather has brought the history of the Foundling Hospital to life
This in-focus display explored the treatment and care of disabled children by the Foundling Hospital in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
The Museum presented a major new project by artist Mark Neville exploring childhood play, including an exhibition of photographs
Guest curator Jane Levi presented the multi-faceted impact that food and eating regimes had on children at the Foundling Hospital
A major exhibition curated by Cornelia Parker, featuring the work of over sixty artists from a range of creative disciplines
An exhibition exploring how illustrators from European folklore and fiction have brought to life fictional characters who are orphaned, adopted, fostered or found
Curated by Professor Lynda Nead, this major exhibition explored the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ in Victorian Britain through artworks and archival documents
This major research project examined the Foundling Hospital’s historic links with the military from the Napoleonic Wars to the twentieth century
This exhibition investigated the rich tradition of decorative plasterwork, from the Rococo splendour of the Foundling Hospital Court Room, to the contemporary designs of master craftsman Geoffrey Preston
26 writers were paired with 26 objects for a special display exploring the Foundling Hospital story
This exhibition revealed how babies and children inspired modernist sculptor Jacob Epstein, and explores his unconventional family life in Bloomsbury.
This exhibition told the story of an eminent Georgian physician and patron of the arts, Dr. Richard Mead, who pioneered innoculation and helped create the Foundling Hospital
Progress brought together contemporary responses to Hogarth’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’, by David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Grayson Perry and Jessie Brennan
In the 300th anniversary year of the coronation of George I, the first Hanoverian king, this fascinating 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
For this unique site-specific installation, 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
This exhibition presented recent work by Quentin Blake, commissioned by four hospitals in the UK and France
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
A collaboration between artist Caroline Isgar and writer Michèle Roberts, inspired by objects in the Foundling Museum collection, which explored mother and child separation
This exhibition explored the development of the Handel Festivals at the Crystal Palace in the nineteenth century
Fifteen contemporary artists were invited to create works inspired by the art and social history collections at the Foundling Museum
This exhibition examined the contributions made by William Hogarth during his life to the Foundling Hospital