Foundling Museum

The Foundling Museum in , , tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, 's first home for children at risk of abandonment. The museum houses the nationally important Foundling Hospital Collection as well as the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, an internationally important collection of material relating to Handel and his contemporaries.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Bloomsbury, London, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “The Foundling Museum” and “Thomas Coram Foundation for Children and attached railings, lanterns and parapets”
  • Address: 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London St Pancras International and Leicester Square.

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is a major international rail interchange and shopping destination in . It is the British capital's only international station, with Eurostar services connecting the city with destinations in mainland .

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The area around , often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of . The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Library
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The is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. is situated 2,200 feet northwest of Foundling Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include King’s Cross and St Pancras.

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King's Cross is a district in the London boroughs of and , on either side of Euston Road in , England, 1.5 miles north of , bordered by to the north, to the south-east, Angel to the east, and to the south, Somers Town to the west and to the north-west.

Suburb
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is a district in . It was originally a medieval ancient parish and subsequently became a metropolitan borough. The metropolitan borough then merged with neighbouring boroughs and the area now forms around half of the modern .

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This article is about three neighbourhoods of central : , St Pancras and Fitzrovia. is the hub of London's university district, is home to the British Museum and is next to the British Library.

Foundling Museum

Latitude
51.52521° or 51° 31′ 31″ north
Longitude
-0.12167° or 0° 7′ 18″ west
Levels
2
Open location code
9C3XGVGH+38
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28269975
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q5474645
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Foundling Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف فاوندلنغ”
  • Chinese: “育婴堂博物馆”
  • French: “Foundling Museum”
  • French: “musée Foundling”
  • Hausa: “Gidan Tarihi na Foundling”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון היתומים”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון פאונדלינג”
  • Italian: “Foundling Museum”
  • Japanese: “ファウンドリング博物館”
  • Japanese: “孤児院博物館”
  • Japanese: “捨て子博物館”
  • Spanish: “Museo Foundling”
  • Swedish: “Foundling Museum”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Brunswick Square and The Bloomsbury Surgery.

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