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. This remarkable collection of art, period interiors and social history is now housed in a restored and refurbished building adjacent to the original site of the Hospital, demolished in 1926.
TALK - Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings Tuesday 13 May: 7.8.30pm (doors at 6.30pm)
£6 with pay bar
Dr Elizabeth Eger – co-curator of the exhibition on the Bluestocking Circle at the National Portrait Gallery will look at the portraits and writings of 18th century female intellectuals and their fight for women’s rights.
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A collaboration between artist Caroline Isgar and writer Michèle Roberts, inspired by objects in the Foundling Museum collection, exploring mother/child separation. The resulting artists' book includes a sequence of rewritten nursery rhymes and a woodcut block inspired by the original refectory table from the Foundling Hospital in the Museum. MORE >> |
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As of Thursday 1 May the Foundling Museum will close an hour earlier on Tuesdays to Sundays and will open an hour earlier on Sunday mornings. The Museum is closed on a Monday.
NEW TIMES:
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm and Sunday 11am - 5pm
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