Fate, Hope and Charity at The Foundling Museum
Overview
Over 250 years later 'Fate, Hope and Charity' reunites the tokens with the foundlings to whom they belonged, bringing to light untold stories that are testaments to the grief of separation and the timeless bond between a mother and child. Tokens, small everyday objects, were left by mothers with their babies at the Foundling Hospital, which continues today as children's charity Coram, between c1741-1760. These tokens, which include coins, jewellery, buttons, poems, playing cards and a simple nut, were a means of identification should the mother ever return to reclaim her child.
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40 Brunswick SquareLondonWC1N 1AZ
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7841 3600
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- Tube: Russell Square, train: Kings Cross. From Russell Square: Turn right out of the tube station, left at the mini roundabout onto Hunter Street and first right into Brunswick Square.
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