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	Foundling Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Foundling Museum was set up in 1998 and houses the nationally important art collection of the Foundling Hospital.
		The Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, and examines the work of its founder Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel.
		The building in which the museum resides, located at Brunswick Square, was built in 1935–1937 and incorporates architectural features as well as original eighteenth century interiors from the first Foundling Hospital torn down in 1926.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foundling_Museum (220 words)

	Foundling Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Foundling Hospital, London, was founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.
		The first children were admitted to the Foundling Hospital on 25 March 1741, into a temporary house located in Hatton Garden.
		The building now houses the Foundling Museum, where the art collection can be seen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foundling_Hospital (551 words)

	Society \| Art victory secures charity collections
		The art fund and the national heritage memorial fund gave large grants for the picture to the Foundling Museum, which is being set up to illustrate the remarkable story of the abandoned babies' home, which, founded by a bluff, retired sea captain, then became the first public art gallery in 18th century England.
		The new London museum, which will display the art and tell the story of the Foundling hospital - reflected in such pathetic items as the buttons and ribbons left with the babies by their destitute mothers in the forlorn hope they might be identified and reclaimed one day - was first proposed 10 years ago.
		The museum is buying the painting from the charity known as the Coram Family, whose links stretch back to Captain Coram - the wealthy sailor and ship builder, who, with the help of his friends, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frederick Handel, set up the hospital.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4433247-107725,00.html (461 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Engraved Heart Encapsulates British Foundling Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The heart is one of hundreds of tokens left by poverty stricken mothers as the last evidence linking them with their children who would immediately be baptized and renamed and with whom they would in all probability have no further contact.
		They are part of a unique collection of 18th century art and memorabilia that give a rare insight into English social history at the Foundling Museum that opens permanently to the public this month.
		"Whether it was from poverty or immorality, entering the Foundling Hospital was seen as expunging from the child the stain of the mother's sin -- as well as protecting both from the shame of illegitimacy," she added.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/22/engraved_heart_encapsulates_british_foundling_project (734 words)

	Foundling fathers: Grant is helping the Foundling Museum reveal its origins
		Although originally conceived as a place of care for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital acquired a wider cultural importance when one of its founders, the artist William Hogarth, had an ingenious idea.
		In the 1950s the Foundling Hospital began a new life as the Thomas Coram Foundation with its headquarters at 40 Brunswick Square, moving next door to refurbished premises in 1998.
		The Foundling Museum's archive is stored at the London Metropolitan Archives and is open to the public.
	www.wellcome.ac.uk /doc_WTD004704.html (553 words)

	London - Foundling Hospital
		Not far from the British Museum is the Foundling Hospital in Guilford Street.
		One may compare their lot with that of more sophisticated children in the London slums, for whom it is necessary to have a society for their protection from the parents who have ill-treated over 100,000 in England in the last year.
		One does not ordinarily associate a foundling hospital with the fine arts, but, as I said before, this is an exception.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles05/london43.shtml (1021 words)

	British museum tells story of city’s abandoned youth
		Tucked in a quiet corner of London’s bookish Bloomsbury district, the Foundling Museum is the legacy of Thomas Coram, a British sea captain who retired to London in 1719 after making a modest fortune in Massachusetts.
		The museum displays petitions from mothers pleading for their children to be admitted.
		Among the museum’s most affecting exhibits are the tiny tokens mothers left with their babies, allowing the children to be identified should they return to claim them.
	www.showmenews.com /2004/Jul/20040711Ovat018.asp (607 words)

	Foundling Museum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Foundling Museum was set up in 1998 and houses the nationally important art collection of the (A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for) Foundling Hospital.
		It also illustates how the Foundling Hospital's charity work for children is still carried on today by (Click link for more info and facts about Coram Family) Coram Family.
		Address: The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ, Tel: 020 7841 3600.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/foundling_museum.htm (85 words)

	CORAM FAMILY HERITAGE
		Their efforts were rewarded in 1739, when George II granted a Royal Charter for the establishment of a Foundling Hospital.
		The rich and influential were encouraged to come and view the pictures as well as the children, in the hope that they might commission works from one of the exhibiting artists and contribute to the work of the Hospital.
		Music and art is at the centre of the Museum's mission and it will continue William Hogarth's original idea that the Foundling Hospital Collection should be open to the public to act as an inspiration and support for childcare work.
	www.coram.org.uk /heritage.htm (513 words)

	Guardian \| A forgotten London charity shares its Georgian treasures
		A new museum opens in London next month, filled with one of the best and least known art collections in the country - and saddled with a financial challenge that dwarfs the woes of any existing arts centre.
		A legal problem means that although the £4.2m cost of creating the Foundling Museum has been raised, the museum owns neither its home, nor the collection, which includes works by Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and original scores given by George Frederick Handel.
		Hogarth designed the emblem for the hospital and the red and fl uniform for the foundlings, gave it two major paintings, and possibly fixed the raffle so that the hospital won a third, his satirical masterpiece The March of the Guards to Finchley.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4919315-103690,00.html (462 words)

	Articles - Bloomsbury, London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British Museum, which first opened to the public on January 15, 1759 in Montagu House, is at the heart of Bloomsbury.
		At the centre of the museum around the former British Library Reading Room where Karl Marx was a reader, the space formerly filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library is today the Great Court, an indoor square with an amazing glass roof designed by British architect Norman Foster.
		One of Londonâ€™s most surprising museums is the Foundling Museum close to Brunswick Square; it tells the story of the Foundling Hospital opened by Thomas Coram, for unwanted children (foundlings) in Georgian London.
	www.wathcesa.com /articles/Bloomsbury,_London (738 words)

	NEWS FROM CORAM FAMILY
		The new museum, in the centre of London's Bloomsbury will tell the story of the Foundling Hospital, and of its Founders and Governors: the campaigning philanthropist Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frideric Handel.
		The Museum will trace the history of London’s first children’s charity and will feature many poignant objects of social history including personal mementoes left by mothers with their infants as means of their identification.
		The new Foundling Museum will be housed in a fully restored 1930s building in Brunswick Square, with a new extension designed by architects Jestico + Whiles, next door to Coram Family, which continues Thomas Coram’s pioneering work with vulnerable children, and provides a living link with the original mission of the Foundling Hospital.
	www.coram.org.uk /shownews.cfm?nid=45 (422 words)

	Foundling Museum Opens Its Doors Again - London City Guide news
		Inside the museum, situated in a fully restored 1930s building in Brunswick Square, you are served an historical feast where you can learn the remarkable story behind the hospital and its founder, the bountiful Captain Coram.
		The Foundling Museum tells the fascinating story of the Foundling Hospital, which, like an early day Live Aid, used artistic creativity to cure shocking social ills.
		Asked why she thought children should visit The Foundling Museum, Rhian Harris says: "Foundlings is a museum for children about children.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /london/news/ART22321.html?ixsid= (1015 words)

	Handel House Museum - Links
		Handel, who was a governor of the Foundling Hospital, features in the play, which is also accompanied by a choir onstage singing stirring music from Handel’s Messiah.
		Handel was a governor of the Foundling Hospital and held annual benefit concerts in aid of the Hospital.
		Museums, galleries, and attractions of all types in all areas, for all ages.
	www.handelhouse.org /links.htm (500 words)

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	www.hlf.org.uk /English/MediaCentre/Archive/Gulbenkian.htm (303 words)

	UK Travel: London, Britain, Wales, Scotland
		Hunterian Museum, London at the Royal College of Surgeons, From one of the oldest anatomical collections in the world to the latest advances in minimal access surgery, the Hunterian Museum reveals four centuries of medical history.
		London Canal Museum - See inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, the cargoes carried and the people who lived and worked on the canals.
		Museum of London - The largest, most comprehenscity museum in the world, it tells the fascinating story of London from prehistoric times to the present.
	www.britannia.com /travel/london_museums.html (576 words)

	THE SECTOR Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The London Museums Hub is keen to work in partnership with museums across London — to encourage the development and sharing of new skills and good practice, and to ensure the maximum benefit for museum users across the capital.
		By the end of the project, each participating museum will be left with a script, props and costume, which can be reused in future programmes, and will have gained experience in developing, commissioning and running theatre in education work.
		London's Transport Museum is working with Brunel Engine House and the Pumphouse Educational Museum to collaborate in developing a science and technology-based holiday programme for gifted and talented key stage 3 and 4 pupils from the museums' surrounding areas.
	www.lmal.org.uk /sector/index.cfm?NavigationID=243 (1056 words)

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		Nonetheless, the surviving building retains very much a grand feel — its plasterwork ceilings are neck-achingly good — and serves as a reminder of the stately-homeliness of the men who met in its rooms to discuss the futures of younger generations.
		On the ground floor is an exhibition on the foundation of the Hospital, and on the life and lives of its children.
		This gallery uses the best of modern museum practice, although the TV screen showing a loop of Coram children is unnecessary, and its accompanying muzak is a definite irritant.
	gfhandel.org /foundling.htm (667 words)

	Drivers Jonas - New £4.2 million Foundling Museum
		The Foundling Museum will tell the story of the Foundling Hospital, its founders and governors, which included the campaigning philanthropist Thomas Coram, the artist William Hogarth and the composer George Frederic Handel.
		The museum will house a significant collection of works by the hospital's early artist supporters including Gainsborough and Reynolds which will be re-united and displayed in interiors preserved from the now demolished Foundling Hospital building based at nearby Coram's Fields.
		The Foundling Museum will be housed in a fully restored 1930s building in Brunswick Square, with a new extension designed by architects Jestico + Whiles, next door to Coram Family and continues Thomas Coram’s pioneering work with vulnerable children, providing a living link with the original mission of the Foundling Hospital.
	www.driversjonas.com /?doc=9950 (359 words)

	Gulbenkian Prize Readers' Poll: The Foundling Museum, London - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK ...
		The Foundling Museum, opened in June 2004, is devoted not only to the story of those young lives that passed through its doorways, but also to art and music, thanks to its two original governors, William Hogarth and GF Handel.
		The museum is not in the original hospital building, which was demolished in the 1920s, but in a 1930s building opposite the original site.
		The museum is still in touch with more than 200 former Foundling residents – their stories could be made available to researchers and genealogists if the project were to go ahead.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh/ART26676.html (1102 words)

	Fitzwilliam museum shortlisted for Gulbenkian prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The UK’s industrial and working class heritage is celebrated in the shortlist for Britain’s biggest single arts prize, The Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year, announced today, Friday 14 January.
		The University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam museum is one of the shortlisted hopefuls.
		Six of the ten shortlisted museums, which cover the length and breadth of the British Isles, owe much to the fast-vanishing heavy industry of the UK.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2005011401 (408 words)

	An Inspirational Setting For Your Next Event - londonlaunch.com - Corporate and Private Event Management for London - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Situated in Brunswick Square, WC1, the Foundling Museum is a beautifully restored building that stands next to the former site of the old Foundling Hospital, London’s first home for abandoned children.
		The museum is on two floors with contemporary exhibition space downstairs and gorgeous Rococo rooms upstairs.
		Walking through the exhibition, I was very moved by the story of the foundlings and by the poignant objects and photographs relating to their lives.
	www.londonlaunch.com /newsArticle.asp?retid=36&newsID=656 (425 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Museum prize champions industry
		Among the nominees is the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum on North Uist in the Western Isles, which offers arts workshops, youth groups and archives relating to the community.
		Also included in the shortlist is The Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury, central London, which opened on the site of a hospital for abandoned children in 2004.
		The museum tells the story of the hospital and the lives of the 27,000 children which it cared for during its 200-year history.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4172339.stm (455 words)

	TRAVELLERS' JOYS
		The Foundling Hospital's long and important musical connection was to lead in recent years to a major bequest: the Gerald Coke Handel Collection.
		One of several beautifully designed new galleries is devoted to the story of the Foundlings, the children whose plight first attracted Thomas Coram: many of them so touchingly commemorated by the "tokens" or keepsakes left by their sad and anonymous mothers.
		This stupendous museum, originally founded in 1952, is well worthy of the thriving and now largely modern city of Shanghai.
	www.artnewsletter.com /travels.htm (2060 words)

	Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is well-known and loaned several major pieces of Lalique jewellery to the V and A’s highly acclaimed Art Nouveau exhibition in 2000 and simultaneously mounted a major exhibition of its treasures at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
		For conservation reasons their main museum collection is stored 23 miles away on the neighbouring island of Benbecula, and therefore this resulted in the need to create a community museum for the 21st century on the Society's home island of North Uist.
		The museum, part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, is the creation of a groundbreaking partnership between the National Railway Museum and the local authority, Sedgefield Borough Council.
	www.gulbenkian.org.uk /presst25.htm (4177 words)

	The Prince of Wales - News & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His Royal Highness officially opened the museum after viewing the permanent exhibition on the Foundling Hospital which describes how life for the children at the hospital followed a strict regime; the pupils took lessons and said prayers each day and had no coats or hats in the cold winter weather.
		They included tiny pieces of cloth, delicate heart-shaped jewellery and a small ring with a red stone – believed to have been left as a means of identification with the mother perhaps hoping she might one day be reunited with her child.
		The Foundling Hospital’s large collection of paintings, sculpture, furniture and historic documents were recognised as of national importance and in 1998 the Foundling Museum was formally established as a separate charity from the Coram Family, the successor body to the hospital.
	www.princeofwales.gov.uk /news/2004/09.sep/foundling.php (394 words)

	covent garden london sightseeing museums and attractions
		Acknowledged as one of London's most child-friendly museums, you can delve into 200 years of London's transport and social history with a fantastic display of buses, trams and tubes.
		Discover the amazing history of the groundbreaking Foundling Hospital of 1740 which not only housed abandoned children but was also the first public art gallery including donated works by Hogarth, Gainsborough and music by Handel.
		London's outstanding selection of museums and galleries is matched by few cities in the world.
	www.coventgardenlife.com /sightseeing/sightseeing.htm (320 words)

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