Visit to Foundling Museum

Wednesday, June 3rd:

Pupils from St George the Martyr did a bit of "time travel" during their Buildings and Spaces project visit to the Foundling Museum. Beginning with a walk down Hogarth's Gin Lane, the pupils then visited galleries that are virtual time capsules of Georgian art and architecture to record ideas with their cameras and sketchboooks. After a lively discussion of Hogarth's grim and gruesome depiction of Bloomsbury, the pupils began to make connections with life 250 years ago. Reading aloud parents' letters from the Foundling Hospital's archive, pupils had the opportunity to act as Governors and vote for one child to be admitted to the Hospital based on evidence from the letters. Teams of pupils explored the collections, while investigating stories of eighteenth-century life, in order to apply these ideas to their garden designs.