Past Exhibitions & Projects

Children from Great Ormond Street Hospital made fortune-telling games to share their hopes and wishes for the future.

This in-focus display explored the treatment and care of disabled children by the Foundling Hospital in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This exhibition considered a fundamental yet little-examined aspect of life at the Foundling Hospital - food

Young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital created medical jokes to share their experiences of treatment and isolation.

Acclaimed artist Michael Craig-Martin produced a new large-scale work for the Picture Gallery.

Young patients from Great Ormond Street Hospital created animations and medicine bottles inspired by the eighteenth-century medical recipes of Foundling Hospital Governor, Dr Richard Mead

A major exhibition curated by Cornelia Parker, featuring the work of over sixty artists from a range of creative disciplines.

On display for the first time is a recently acquired letter written by author Charles Dickens to the Governors of the Foundling Hospital.

A display exploring young people's experiences of being labelled as a 'child in care' by care leavers from Westminster and Ealing.

BA Interior & Spatial Design students from Chelsea College of Arts created dolls’ houses for imaginary pupils of the Foundling Hospital.

An exhibition exploring how illustrators from European folklore and fiction have brought to life fictional characters who are orphaned, adopted, fostered or found.

Children from Great Ormond Street Hospital created an animation describing the process of dialysis through to a kidney transplant.