Past Exhibitions & Projects

Stigma

27 Sep 2021 – 28 Feb 2022

Visit the Introductory Gallery to discover a display that looks at the stigmas young people who have experienced the care system have felt.

Exhibitions & Displays

What do you think about when you think about nothing?

14 Jul – 26 Sep 2021

This was a programme of live and digital events curated by children’s author and illustrator, Lauren Child CBE.

Exhibitions & Displays

Quentin Blake: Gifted

25 Jun – 26 Sep 2021

This exhibition showed works from Quentin Blake in two emotive series, Children and Dogs, and Children, Birds & Dogs.

Exhibitions & Displays

Forgotten Foundlings: Uncovering the life of Thomas Trowbridge

31 Oct 2020 – 31 Aug 2021

The second in our series I'm Sent To Find, If Fortune's Kind, this display explored the life of one of the few foundlings of colour.

Exhibitions & Displays

The Covid Letters: A Vital Update

24 Oct 2020 – 13 Jun 2021

Jonny Banger, designer and owner of subversive fashion label Sports Banger, showed the work he gathered from the nation’s children during lockdown.

Exhibitions & Displays

Foundling Portraits Campaign

15 Oct 2020 – 30 Oct 2022

In this landmark project renowned artists give 25,000+ looked-after children visibility after 280 years, commemorating the lost faces of children given into care between 1741-1954.

Exhibitions & Displays

Honest Dick Leveridge: Performer, Composer & Coffee Shop Owner

26 Sep 2020 – 31 Aug 2021

Discover the life and work of Richard Leveridge, a leading singer on the 18th-century London stage.

Exhibitions & Displays

The Hunter Twins

19 Sep – 18 Oct 2020

This first display in our series I'm Sent To Find, If Fortune's Kind, reveals the curious story of two twins admitted to the Hospital on Christmas Day in 1767.

Artists’ Projects