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1739 Club

The Foundling Museum is in the process of establishing a club for our leading supporters. This new scheme is inspired by the provisions of the original Foundling Hospital Charter of 1739 and we call it "1739 Club - for very generous grown-ups"

As an independent museum, funded by its own activities, we are relying on your generosity to help us in our quest to secure the Museum’s future.

An annual subscription would have cost 40 shillings in 1739, equivalent to around £2,500 today. An annual membership nowadays will provide you with the following benefits:

•   Free entry for subscriber and their guest to the Foundling;
•   An invitation for the member and their guest to the
     director’s  annual dinner;
•   Invitations to exhibition private views and other events in
     the museum;
•   The chance to take part in a programme of excursions
     organised and led by the Foundling, at cost

Well, the original charter did not mention Corporate Memberships! Naturally, we would also like to welcome corporate members to the 1739 Club.

Corporate Membership subscription will be at £7,000 + VAT. So check out how much fun you can have if you were to subscribe now!

The membership would give you give you the following benefits:

•   An allocation of complimentary tickets for your staff;
•   Complimentary use of the Foundling venue for a breakfast
     reception;

•   10% discount on other museum hire;
•   Invitation for two to the Director’s dinner; and
•   Invitations to private views and other events at the Foundling

Life membership in 1739 cost £20, which equates to about £25,000 currently.

In addition to the benefits outlined above, the names of our life subscribers are added to the 1739 Club roll of honour in the museum foyer.

For more details please contact us on 1739@foundlingmuseum.org.uk or call us on 020 7841 3602.

  Interested in finding out more about the illustrations

  above??? Then read on!

 Background info to A Night at The

 Foundling Museum and the 1739 Club

 design

•   The vibrant illustrations in the short film on our landing page 
     were provided by incredibly creative pupils of St Aloysius
     School, London. To be precise, by Year 5 Yellow (Y5Y) -
     a lively class of 9 and 10 year olds from St Aloyisius School.

•   Animator Tom Cross accompanied the class on its visit to the
     Foundling Museum in November 2009. Tom observed how the
     children engaged with the building’s spaces and with the
     stories they learned about the Foundling Hospital during their
     ‘Victorian Foundlings’ session, part of the Museum’s National
     Curriculum programme.

•   Tom followed up Y5Y’s museum visit with two half day

     workshops back at St Aloysius School, focussing on the
     Foundling Museum’s historical worth as a building and as a
     space for children.

•   The pupils engaged in a ‘big conversation’ about what they
     had seen, heard and learned.

•   Tom used Y5Y’s feedback to create storyboards, which he
     showed the class in their second workshop. The children were
     asked to think of times when they had broken a rule, and to
     visualise which rules they would like to break if they were left
     alone in the museum overnight.

•  The pupils set about turning their thoughts into drawings.
    Back in his studio, Tom transformed Y5Y’s work into fresh,

    quirky views of the historic Picture Gallery and Court Room.

•  With the very kind and expert support from Team Saatchi
    the children’s illustrations have been turned into the animated
    mini film!

•  The pupils' drawings were also used on our 1739 Club’s
    literature  

•  If you would like to see more of Y5Y's brilliant illustrations,

    then you should come to our Museum Cafe, where they are

    currently exhibited.

  For information about the museum’s education programme and
  resources for schools, please contact the Learning Department

  on 020 7841 3605 or email education@foundlingmuseum.org.uk.