Where to see art you’ve made happen

Visit the Foundling Museum in London and discover how Thomas Coram’s children’s hospital became the UK’s first public gallery, with artists donating works to benefit the cause.

After an Art Happens campaign supported by 120 funders allowed Nantgarw Chinaworks Museum to recreate a porcelain recipe thought lost for 200 years, examples of this exquisite and delicate porcelain are now on show. The chinaworks' artist-in-residence has been able to create, fire and exhibit new work made with the porcelain on the premises.

Two of the fans produced for Street Fans – an exhibition supported by 151 Art Happens funders in which contemporary street artists designed fans for a master fan-maker – are now on permanent display at the Fan Museum.

With the support of 386 funders through Art Happens, South London Gallery were able to kit out a former Fire Station as an annexe to their main gallery. Explore this new contemporary art space and see how it makes a difference locally with its community and education facilities.

A collection of work by 20th-century British artist John Piper is brought together in a dedicated, permanent gallery at the River & Rowing Museum, thanks to 155 funders through Art Happens. From stained glass and ceramics to paintings and drawings, visitors can appreciate Piper's diverse output in the town where he spent much of his working life.

One of the finest Baroque interiors in Europe, the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College is often called ‘the Sistine Chapel of the UK’. As part of a wider conservation plan to restore the hall, 272 funders through Art Happens enabled conservation work to be carried out on its centrepiece, the proscenium arch – now re-gilded and shining brightly once more.

The country retreat of the Bloomsbury group – a loose collective of early 20th-century writers, thinkers and artists – Charleston is the only complete example of a Bloomsbury interior in the world. You can see walls, furniture and canvases painted by the group’s artists, including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, now restored and protected for future generations thanks to 318 funders through Art Happens.

An immersive space inspired by the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in their heyday, the Pleasure Gardens gallery at the Museum of London features 12 mannequins dressed in spectacular clothing from the 18th and 19th centuries. They're now ‘re-dressed’ thanks to the support of 266 funders through Art Happens, helping the museum to rotate and conserve fragile garments.