The Foundling Hospital was founded by the sea captain Thomas Coram, and artists such as Hogarth and Handel supported it with works and concerts. When handing over their children, mothers left small tokens – coins, buttons or scraps of fabric – which are now displayed in cases. Upstairs, paintings hang in splendid rooms transferred from the old Foundling Hospital. Opposite is Coram’s Fields, a playground adults may only enter with children.
The Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, London, tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for children at risk of abandonment. The museum houses the nationally important Foundling Hospital Collection as well as the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, an internationally important collection of material relating to Handel and his contemporaries. After a major building refurbishment, the museum was reopened to the public in June 2004.
The museum explores the history of the Foundling Hospital, which continues today as the children's charity Coram. Artists such as William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel are central to the Hospital story and today the museum celebrates the ways in which creative people have helped improve children's lives for over 275 years. It is a member of The London Museums of Health & Medicine group.
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Charles Dickens MuseumThe house where Dickens wrote ‘Oliver Twist’, furnished as in his day.
Sir John Soane's MuseumAn architect's house crammed with mirrors, skylit domes and an Egyptian sarcophagus.