Visitor Information

The Foundling Museum Shop

The Museum’s shop has been expanded in the reception area and now has space to stock more exciting products, from children's toys to collection inspired gifts.  The shop has a selection of books on the Hospital’s history, the lives of the foundling children, as well as Hogarth and Handel. We also sell a range of classical music CDs, postcards featuring the paintings in the collection, greeting cards and posters. The shop accepts all debit and credit cards. We also accept orders by telephone with a small charge to cover postage and administration costs. Please contact us for details.

Telephone: 020 7841 3611

Email: enquiries@foundlingmuseum.org.uk

Here are some of our most popular books!

Handel the Philanthropist: Exhibition catalogue

£5.00

This publication has been produced to accompany the Foundling Museum's exhibition, Handel the Philanthropist which commemorates the 250th anniversary of the composer's death.  The catalogue is beautifully illustrated with reproductions of all the objects displayed in the exhibition, including loans from the National Portrait Gallery, the British Library, the Royal Collection and the Royal Society of Musicians.  With essays and contributions from the exhibition Curator, Katharine Hogg, Librarian of the Gerald Coke Handel Collection based at the Foundling Museum as well as Professor Donald Burrows.

Handel's Will: Facsimiles and commentary edited by Donald Burrows

Paperback £8.50, hardback £25.00

Produced as a commemorative publication of the 250th anniversary of Handel's death by the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation and to complement the exhibition Handel the Philanthropist.  This book includes high quality reproductions of Handel's will, both his personal copy that is on permanent display at the Foundling Museum as well as the executor's copy lent by the Royal College of Music to the exhibition. These facsimiles are accompanied by essays by Professor Ellen Harris and others, edited by Donald Burrows.

Thomas Coram, the Man who Saved Children

£4.99

A new publication produced by the Foundling Museum partly as a guide to the Museum for our younger visitors.  Packed full of new pictures, paintings, photographs and fun facts – a great way for children to learn about the Foundling Hospital’s history and the contribution of one man in helping to save children.

Thomas Coram, the Man who Saved Children is a must for all children!

Coram Boy

£6.99

Jamila Gavin’s award-winning novel, Coram Boy is the story of two eighteenth-century boys, one saved from a slave ship and the other an illegitimate son from a wealthy family, whose lives are intimately linked with the story of the Foundling Hospital. The script of the play Coram Boy, staged by the National Theatre, is also available for sale at the Museum shop.