Buy Poster This Friday 2nd September the museum is opening late, for free, so that you can explore the design of the Mayor’s New Bus for London. This poster from 1979 celebrates 150 years of London’s buses. It starts with the old omnibus and goes through to the T-type Titan. Across the bottom are pictures of [...]
Published by London Underground Ltd, 1994. Commissioned by Art on the Underground. Buy Poster This weekend is Carnival Time, so we’re celebrating with this colourful number by Paula Cox. I love the movement in this poster, you can almost hear the music! I got in touch with Paula and asked her what inspired her design for [...]
Buy Poster Every few months London Transport Museum installs a new Poster Parade which showcases 20 posters from our collection of over 5,000 different poster designs. Curators and Museum Technical Assistants have to arrive at the museum early to make sure the display is ready for when the museum opens. The poster parades are usually themed. [...]
Buy Poster Next week it’s TfL’s Safety & Citizenship Be Safe Week at the museum – we’ve got free design activities for families to join in. Back in the 1930s, safety was high on the agenda too as the Publicity Department persuaded people that the Underground was safe and speedy. You know you’d be super safe with [...]
Nearly two years after first starting the Young Consultant project we have witnessed so many changes in the museum and with ourselves. Being a Young Consultant has been more than just a job, it has also been a sea of wider opportunities, learning experiences and the beginning of many friendships. Never has the phrase ‘the [...]
Last week the wooden carriage body was delivered to the Festiniog Railway engineering works at Boston Lodge for further assessment. The road transfer from the Museum Depot took place over a two day period, with the final part of the journey involving use of the narrow gauge railway line. The photograph shows the carriage being [...]
We have a huge poster collection at the museum, with some going back over 100 years. I’ve just started working here as a Community Curator running a project called Access to Art. I’m going to be working with lots of people to bring these posters to life – finding fresh ways of looking at them, [...]
The curatorial department has been keen to support the next generation of curators and conservators and as a result has achieved a highly active internship programme. Over the past 12 months the curatorial department has welcomed 9 interns from 6 different university postgraduate courses into the Museum. These interns have been working alongside our curators on [...]
Following on from my previous post, the short film about Tooting Broadway station is now available to view online, via London Transport Museum’s new YouTube channel. Enjoy!
During the induction week young volunteers were given the opportunity to become familiar with the Museum. Over a period of four days the young people took part in a variety of different activities and met with different members of staff to help build up their knowledge of the Museum and better understand how it operates. [...]
