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Join us for Mr. George Frideric Handel’s birthday!

Join us for Mr. George Frideric Handel’s birthday!

Join us in February for a concert celebrating Handel's 327th birthday. In partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Amadè Players, the concert will include highlights from Handel’s career.

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Exhibitions

Quentin Blake, one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators presents Quentin Blake – As large as life, an exhibition at the Foundling Museum featuring familiar illustrations alongside new work created for hospitals in the UK and France.

Quentin Blake - As large as life

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Britain's first home for abandoned children and London’s first public art gallery.

The Foundling Museum reveals the stories of the Foundling Hospital’s founder Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and composer George Frideric Handel. It houses significant collections of eighteenth-century art, interiors, social history and music.

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