The Foundling Museum Visitor Information

The Foundling Museum – The Architecture

William Hogarth (1697-1764), Moses before Pharaoh's Daughter

© Coram Family in the care of the Foundling Museum

The original Foundling Hospital was built to provide a home for children and to create England’s first public art gallery to attract financial support. Before it was demolished in the late 1920s, the architects, J M Sheppard & Partners, took incredibly accurate measurements of all the dimensions. A lot of historic features were put into storage and reused when the current Foundling Museum building was built in 1938. The Foundling Museum’s Court Room has one of London’s finest surviving Rococo interiors and is available for private hire.

• The Foundling Museum - Introduction
• How to Get to The Foundling Museum
• The Foundling Museum Opening Times
• The Foundling Museum - Ticket Information
• The Foundling Museum - Shopping + Food & Drink
• The Foundling Museum – Access
• The Foundling Museum - Family Activities
• The Foundling Museum – The Architecture
• The Foundling Museum – Ground Floor and Lower Ground Floor
• The Foundling Museum - First and Second Floors