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Foundling Museum

July 2023

  • The Thomas Coram nursery school in Bloomsbury, north London.

    Coram charity accused of ‘throttling by stealth’ nursery it helped create

    Pioneering early years centre in north London faces closure as landlord Coram plans to double rent

October 2022

  • The Eastern ticket hall at Tottenham Court Road underground station shows wall artwork by Daniel Buren.

    Observer walks
    Scenic route: feed the spirit with an art walk around Soho, London

    Would-be collectors will love exploring this area of the city, which is teeming with exciting spaces showcasing lesser-known and new artists

July 2022

  • Paul de Gelder photographed at Charlie Beach, Marina Del Rey, California.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

    From the ballet in Odesa to a shark attack survivor, the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in July 2022

January 2022

  • Sunny © Taiyo Matsumoto Shogakukan (Vol 1) Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 Years in Comics 1 April - 28 August 2022 The Foundling Museum

    ‘Me against the world’: why superheroes are so often orphans

    Batman, Spider-Man and many others lost parents when young. A new exhibition explores their complex stories

February 2021

  • detail of A Flagship, Wearing the Flag of a Vice Admiral of the Red, 1754, by Charles Brooking.

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: a flagship work from when Britain 'ruled the waves'

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today: the Foundling Museum’s seascape by Charles Brooking

July 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Anish Kapoor; Johanna Unzueta; Evelyn De Morgan; David Hockney; Don McCullin; Aubrey Beardsley; Denzil Forrester; Michael Armitage; Cao Fei; Rembrandt

    From Rembrandt to Warhol: 30 exhibitions to catch as galleries reopen

  • Historian Mary Beard at the Titian: Love Desire Death exhibition at the National Gallery before it was closed by Covid-19.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Titian's fiery dreams are brought back to life as National Gallery prepares to reopen – the week in art

May 2020

  • Foundling Museum. ‘The Pinch of Poverty’, 1891, Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916), Coram in the care of the Foundling Museum

    The great British art quiz
    Which children's author was inspired by this painting? The great British art quiz

    The Foundling Museum in London set today’s quiz. Like the rest of the UK’s arts institutions, it’s currently closed – but you can explore its collection here while answering some tricky questions

January 2020

  • Chantal Joffe’s 2004 self-portrait

    Great expectations: art's struggle to depict pregnancy

    From the Virgin Mary to Demi Moore, art history swells with iconic mums-to-be. But can a single image ever do justice to such a head-scrambling state of flux – especially one made by a man?

May 2019

  • A detail of The March of the Guards to Finchley, 1750, by William Hogarth.

    Hogarth and The Art of Noise review – London's whistles and wails, drums and dogs

  • Chi’s Sweet Home (2004-2015) by Komani Kanata, in Manga at the British Museum.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Cartoon cats, doomed sunbathers and the sound of Hogarth's London – the week in art

March 2019

  • .<br>Carol Homden Chief exec of children's charity Coram 06-03-2019 Photograph by Martin Godwin

    The Society interview
    Carol Homden: Children will suffer – if we lose the national adoption register

    The chief executive of the Coram charity calls on ministers to rethink plans to axe the register for hard-to-place children

January 2019

  • One of more than 30 images taken by Katie Wilson which will go on display in 2019

    Children's bedroom photographs expose reality of UK poverty

    Bedrooms of London exhibition captures children’s spaces in bedsits and hostels

August 2018

  • Balls, a short film directed by Lily Cole

    Lily Cole: Balls review – what Heathcliff's mum did next

  • Looking down ... Balls, a short film inspired by Heathcliff’s foundling origins.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Lily Cole has a ball with Heathcliff and a Brit reinvents America – the week in art

July 2018

  • ‘At first, I fell for him’ … Lily Cole, who has made the film Balls for the bicentenary of Emily Brontë.

    Lily Cole: why I made a film about 'violent, awful' Heathcliff

    Her appointment to the Brontë Society caused a storm. How will her new film – inspired by Wuthering Heights – be received? We meet the former supermodel at her Impossible HQ

September 2017

  • Joseph Highmore’s The Angel of Mercy

    Joseph Highmore infanticide painting to be shown in UK for first time

    The Angel of Mercy is part of exhibition of artist’s work at Foundling Museum, built to save abandoned children of 1700s London

January 2017

  • Kristine the day after the bombing in Luganke, east Ukraine, 2016.

    Hoops, wheels and moose-heads: playtime in the world's most inhospitable places

    How do children play in refugee camps, aboriginal reserves and places ravaged by war? Photographer Mark Neville found out

December 2016

  • Girls line up for a meal at the Foundling Hospital.

    Rachel Cooke on food
    In defence of gruel

    An exhibition on life - and meal times - at the Foundling Museum shows the true spirit of Christmas, and provides some surprising discoveries

October 2016

  • Orphaned children have Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital in an 1872 drawing.

    How thieves skimmed the Foundling childrens’ cream in 18th and 19th centuries

    Unearthed documents show how Foundling Hospital children were robbed of full milk ration
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