FOUNDLING MUSEUM
Take a tour of the Museum
Explore the Museum and its collections with these videos created by leading video production company, Sightline. Join our former Director, Caro Howell, who will tell you all about the collections and immerse yourself in the history of the UK’s first children’s charity and first public art gallery.
30 mins
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The Royal Charter for the Foundling Hospital
The Introductory Gallery
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1:14
Trumpet Boy
The Foyer
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1:01
The Tokens
The Introductory Gallery
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1:10
Font
The Introductory Gallery
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0:50
The Foundling Hospital Anthem & Hetty Feather Manuscript
The Introductory Gallery
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0:55
The Foundling Restored to its Mother
Committee Room
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1:02
Landscape with Figures
The Committee Room
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0:49
The March of the Guards to Finchley
The Committee Room
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1:28
Superman Was A Foundling
The Study Studio
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0:55
Staircase from the Foundling Hospital
Staircase
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0:58
Portrait of Jacqueline Wilson
Staircase
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0:36
Tricycle
Staircase
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1:18
A flagship, wearing the flag of a Vice Admiral of the Red, before the wind off the English coast, with a cutter, a ketch-rigged sloop and other shipping.
The Picture Gallery
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0:52
Terracotta bust of Handel
The Picture Gallery
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0:53
Portrait of Dr Richard Mead
The Picture Gallery
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1:00
Isabella Duchess of Manchester
The Picture Gallery
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1:00
Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram
The Picture Gallery
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1:28
Portrait of Thomas Emerson
The Picture Gallery
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1:10
The Charterhouse
The Court Room
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0:57
Charity
The Court Room
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1:13
The Finding of Infant Moses in the Bullrushes
The Court Room
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1:06
Moses Brought Before Pharaoh's Daughter
The Court Room
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1:05
The Court Room's Rococo Ceiling
The Court Room
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1:18
Model for Handel's monument in Westminster Abbey
Handel Gallery
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0:25
Handel's Will
Handel Gallery
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1:36
Jennens-Holdsworth correspondence
Handel Gallery
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0:38
Credits
Video and content creation - Sightline