Foundling Museum
‘The Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London’s first home for abandoned children, and of three major figures in British history: its campaigning founder the philanthropist Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel. The Museum’s nationally-important collections are housed in a restored and refurbished building adjacent to the original site of the Hospital, which is now Coram Fields children’s playground near Russell Square.’
The museum puts on displays and memorabilia exhibitions as well as art exhibitions and raises money for the children’s charity Coram who continues Thomas Coram’s pioneering work with vulnerable children.
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Quentin Blake : As Large As Life
12th Jan 2012 - 15th Apr 2012
An exhibition at the Foundling Museum of recent works by famed illustrator, Quentin Blake. The exhibition has been commissioned by four hospitals in the UK and France bringing more than 60 works to the museum from the series, ‘Our Friends
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