Foundling Museum Attractions & Things to do

Discover London aboard an open-top, double-decker Big Bus on this hop-on, hop-off sightseeing tour and enjoy a trip on the London Eye as part of your ticket. With your 24 hour ticket, design a personal itinerary with dozens of possible stops, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and many more. Enjoy unobstructed views and on-board commentary as you view the city’s highlights and hop off to enjoy the best panoramic views of London's skyline on the London Eye. Make the most of your day with a free River Thames cruise.

Highlights
See more of London in less time with this two-in-one package
24 or 48 hour unlimited hop-on hop-off bus travel
Experience the best panoramic view of the city on-board the London Eye
One-way River Thames cruise from the Tower of London to Westminster included with each ticket option
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Discover London’s top sights for one low price with The London Pass® Plus by Go City. Choose from a 1 to 10-day sightseeing credits package, and enjoy access to 100+ attractions, visiting as many as you like each day. Your London Pass also lets you redeem credits on a Hop-On Hop-Off Bus tour, a Thames River Cruise, London Bike rental, and more.

• Access over 100 things to do in London
• Choose between a 1-,2-,3-,4-, 5-, 6-, 7- or 10-day credits package
• Sync your London Pass® Plus with the Go City app to help plan your itinerary and make reservations where needed
• Visit London’s best attractions including Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, London Eye, The View from The Shard or Madame Tussauds

And best of all, your London Pass® Plus is valid for 1 year from purchase date and only activates when you first exchange credits at an attraction. After that, your pass is valid for the remaining number of days purchased.
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Nowhere in the world has been quite so important in the field of medicine than London. Historically, if only for its long history filled with disasters and diseases, but in the last few centuries it has also been the home of science and some of the most incredible jumps in medicine and healthcare anywhere on Earth.

This tour will visit plenty of sites that have helped change the world as well as visiting some of the spots that were home to some of the countless medical and social problems in history. In many ways, this tour isn’t just a Medical History Tour but also a fabulous alternative tour of London.

We will see where vaccines and medicines were invented, visit the first operating theatres, orphanages, social care, mental institutions and hospitals in the western world. Follow in the footsteps of medical pioneers and visit the sights of some of the biggest healthcare disasters and underhand medical events as we go from the herbal medicine & crusaders to COVID-19 & the modern day.
Duration: 4 hours.

Could you guess that before 1873 alcohol was prescribed by doctors? We know that you want a time-travelling machine now, we do too…

Highlights
• Explore horrible anti-masturbation devices
• See remains of the first hospital for orphans
• Hear great stories about British medical reformers
• Visit longest surviving medical society in England
• Site of the first hospital created by Florence Nightingale

 

London was once known as a dirty place, site for epidemic distempers. On our tour we examine the highways of London’s medical past.

You will discover how health care trades transformed themselves into professions, see places where people used to seek treatment and hear stories about the greates​t people in medicine.

Duration: 2 hours.

In the 18th century the only health care provided in Bloomsbury was the Foundling Hospital, one of the most magnificent buildings in London. Soon after, this small area of London attracted reformers who changed health care in fundamental ways that shape today's services. Exploring with Nick Black, a leading expert on health care, you will see the first hospital for children in England, the only hospital for Italians, the first hospital established by nurses, the first hospital for those paralysed and epileptic, and the medical school created by and for women who were otherwise excluded from such a career. While Bloomsbury is rightly recognised as the home of radical changes in literature, art and penal reform, it was also a cradle of reform for health care. The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.
Duration: 50 minutes.