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Ever heard of Exhibits Explorers? In short, it’s a TV show made by two sisters, dressed as vintage explorers, visiting L...
23/04/2026

Ever heard of Exhibits Explorers?

In short, it’s a TV show made by two sisters, dressed as vintage explorers, visiting London’s most overlooked museums—losing their minds over things like Victorian leeches, Russian spies and juicy gossip from the 1700s. Sounds fun, right? (you’re right!)

London has 450 museums and galleries. Most people visit the same 5. We care about the other 445.

Follow along for the hidden gems, the wild facts, and our top picks on where to visit next!

21/04/2026

When mothers left their babies at the Foundling Hospital, they tucked a small token in with them. A tiny, secret object, hidden away and folded inside a page of a record book, waiting.

Because what if they came back?

Every child admitted was carefully recorded by a clerk — their details written down, their token folded neatly inside the page like a little parcel.

To reclaim your child, you had to describe your token exactly. The coin. The button. The exact scrap of ribbon. If it matched, you could reclaim your child.

If it didn’t? The child remained in the Hospital’s care.
These tiny objects were secret keys. Unfortunately for many children, nobody ever came back for them.

The Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury holds this entire collection — which we think is absolutely worth a visit.

If you’d like to join us as we piece together stories like this across London’s museums, why not follow along?

We’ve got some really interesting places to visit this season:

📍 The Foundling Museum
📍 Old Operating Theatre Museum
📍 South London Gallery
📍 Strawberry Hill House
And many more…

You can find the full episode on YouTube — the link is in our bio!

3 in 4 babies born into poverty didn’t survive. One man spent 20 years fighting to change that — and saved 25,000 childr...
20/04/2026

3 in 4 babies born into poverty didn’t survive. One man spent 20 years fighting to change that — and saved 25,000 children.

Feeling curious and want to learn more? Find the full episode on our YouTube — link in bio!

16/04/2026

When the Foundling Hospital opened its doors in 1741, it was first come, first served. But the need was so overwhelming, so heartbreaking in its scale, that they simply ran out of space.

So they came up with a system.

Mothers would reach into a bag and draw a coloured ball. White meant your child was accepted. Red meant you were on the waiting list — hope, but no guarantees. Black meant rejection. No admission. No second chances. No appeal.

Can you imagine standing in that queue? Knowing everything rested on what your hand pulled out of a bag?
If you’d like to join us as we piece together stories like this across London’s museums, why not follow along?

We’ve got some really interesting places to visit this season:

📍 The Foundling Museum
📍 Old Operating Theatre Museum
📍 South London Gallery
📍 Strawberry Hill House
And many more…

You can find the full episode on YouTube — the link is in our bio!

A children’s hospital accidentally created London’s first art gallery — and inspired the founding of the Royal Academy. ...
15/04/2026

A children’s hospital accidentally created London’s first art gallery — and inspired the founding of the Royal Academy.

If you want to learn more, watch the full episode on our YouTube — link in bio!

14/04/2026

Hidden inside this London museum is the petition that saved 25,000 children.

Thomas Coram arrived in London around 1720 and saw children literally abandoned in the streets, so he decided to do something about it.

He didn’t just want to find a building and put children in it. He wanted a proper, long term solution. And for that, he needed the big guns - Kings, Lords, Dukes, Earls. Not just for their money (though that helped), but because their names on a petition meant nobody could ignore it.

So he spent 20 years. Twenty years. Knocking on doors, collecting signatures, building a case. Until finally, nobody could say no.

And the result was Britain’s first children’s charity, Coram, which is still in operation today! You can find the original petition for the Foundling Hospital in the Museum in Bloomsbury.

If you’d like to join us as we piece together stories like this across London’s museums, why not follow along?

We’ve got some really interesting places to visit this season:
📍 The Foundling Museum
📍 Old Operating Theatre Museum
📍 South London Gallery
📍 Strawberry Hill House
And many more…

You can find the full episode on YouTube — the link is in our bio!

13/04/2026

Gin was so cheap, the only fix was to make it expensive…welcome to 1750’s London.

In Hogarth’s ‘Gin Lane’, a man is sharing a bone with a dog. A woman can’t even be bothered to look after her baby. The whole scene is chaos, and that was entirely the point.
Was it exaggerated? Hmmm, probably a bit. But when you’re trying to make a government sit up and actually do something, sometimes you’ve got to overdo it to get the message across.
And it worked. The government eventually stepped in — not with support, not with education — just by making gin unaffordable. Which kind of solved the problem…

If you’d like to add more to your internal knowledge bank of Georgian history, why not follow along?

We’ve got some really interesting places to visit this season:

📍 The Foundling Museum
📍 Old Operating Theatre Museum
📍 South London Gallery
📍 Strawberry Hill House

And many more…

You can find the full episode on YouTube — the link is in our bio! 🧡

11/04/2026

Can you imagine beer being the healthier choice?

Well, when gin arrived from abroad in the 18th century, people drank it like they’d always drunk beer…pints of it. Just thinking about that makes us a bit queasy…

Here’s the thing, when life (18th century London - poverty, overcrowding, disease) was hard and gin was super cheap, people drank to make the tough life disappear for a time, so you can understand why it spread the way it did.

Hogarth was able to capture these feelings of escapism and chaos within his painting ‘Gin Lane’, one of the most famous social commentary engravings ever made. It’s paired with ‘Beer Street’, where everyone is healthy and thriving, to really hammer the contrast home.

If you’d like to join us as we piece together interesting stories across London’s museums, why not follow along? We’ve got some really interesting places to visit this season:

📍Museum of the Home
📍Old Operating Theatre Museum
📍South London Gallery
📍Strawberry Hill House

And many more…

You can find the full episode on youtube—the link is in our bio!

Do you like Horrible Histories, random facts, and two sisters being silly in museums?Good news! We do too :)So, naturall...
10/04/2026

Do you like Horrible Histories, random facts, and two sisters being silly in museums?

Good news! We do too :)
So, naturally, we made a whole independent TV show about it! 7 episodes, packed with cool facts from London’s most interesting places.

Why not follow along?

London has over 450 museums and galleries. As impressive as that is… it’s also overwhelming.Where do you even start?We’r...
09/04/2026

London has over 450 museums and galleries. As impressive as that is… it’s also overwhelming.

Where do you even start?

We’re İlayda and Dilara—two sisters who never saw anyone fun, who looked like us, getting people excited about visiting museums. So…we dressed up as explorers and decided to do it ourselves. 🧡

A quiet counter-movement is taking shape online, artists returning to craft, zine-making, and experimental publishing in...
20/03/2026

A quiet counter-movement is taking shape online, artists returning to craft, zine-making, and experimental publishing in response to an increasingly automated web.
Connection Established traces this impulse through LAN parties, wikis, and zine libraries, mapping a history of digital community and the renewed appeal of the handmade.

Find these and more on the exhibits app — free to explore 🧡

📍Connection Established (Adults £10, until 07 Jun ‘26)

We’ve rounded up some amazing free events, workshops and activities happening across London’s museums and galleries this...
17/03/2026

We’ve rounded up some amazing free events, workshops and activities happening across London’s museums and galleries this month.

Happy Exploring 🧡
📍 Star Trek Lates – Science Museum (Free, 26 Mar ‘26)

📍 Friday Lates Life Drawing – National Gallery (Free, 20 Mar ‘26)

📍 Creative Encounters: A Shrine to the Everyday – Southbank Centre (Free, 1 Apr ‘26)

📍 Storytelling Through Art and Play – Dulwich Picture Gallery (Free, 1 Apr ‘26)

📍 Drop-in Design: Wiggly Weaving – V&A (Free, 2 Apr ‘26)

📍 Upgrade Yourself Monthly: A World View – Somerset House (Free, 1 Apr ‘26)

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