New Director at Foundling Museum

Lars Tharp will be the new of Director of the Foundling Museum from 1 October 2008. Lars takes over from Rhian Harris who has cared for the outstanding collections of art, music, period interiors and social history archives belonging to the childcare charity, Coram, since 1995. She has overseen the creation and development of a museum that opened to the public in 2004 and which promotes the story of the Foundling Hospital, the many thousands of children it cared for and the philanthropic vision of artists led by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. Rhian will take over from Diane Lees as Director of the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green in September.

Lars Tharp is a well-known figure in the art world having been a director and auctioneer at Sotheby’s. He is best known to the wider public as an expert on the hugely popular BBC 1 program, The Antiques Road Show, for 21 years. Lars is an avid Hogarth enthusiast having established the Hogarth Group and has been a great supporter of the Foundling Museum from its inception.

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