The music that people listen to when they travel by Underground affects their experience of the journey. As part of the Museum’s contemporary collecting project for the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013, a group of Museum staff and volunteers spent an afternoon at Tooting Broadway station, stopping any passengers with headphones and asking [...]
We’re excited about the showing of the 1928 film Underground at the Barbican next week. It’s been restored by the British Film Institute with music played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. I’m really hoping that it’s going to feel as atmospheric as this gorgeous poster by Charles Pears which was produced a couple of years after [...]
London Transport Museum benefits a great deal from voluntary support in all manner of areas, and without it we would not be able to achieve anywhere near as much and offer what we are able to offer without it. This was recently evident when a handful of volunteers stepped in on Wednesday 14th September to [...]
This week saw the start of a new project with a group from Oaktree Community Centre on the South Acton estate. Over the next 5 weeks we’re going to be exploring the museum’s collections online and at the Museum Depot in Acton. The group will be learning new digital skills and we’ll be finding out what they think [...]
The streets are full of fashionistas this week as it’s London Fashion Week. This ‘Simply Fashion’ poster was commissioned to promote the event back in 1999. The poster went alongside a special leaflet produced by Time Out. It was part of the ‘Simply’ series which included posters promoting markets, nightlife and showbiz. Just type ’simply’ into our Poster Browser to see the rest of the [...]
With 3 other poster related blog posts last week, we thought we’d hold back on this one, so you’ll have 2 posters to enjoy this week! This one marks the start of our Access to Art poster transfer programme. Here at the museum we look after over 40,000 transport posters. Ideally we like to have up [...]
London Transport Museum receives many requests for loans from other museums. Loans must be agreed months in advanced to make sure the requested items are available, are of a sound condition, that conservation requirements are met and to make sure all the relevant paperwork is completed in time for the exhibition opening. Last week, London Transport [...]
On Friday 9th September a team of curators and museum technical assistants arrived early at London Transport Museum to install the new extended poster parade, John Burningham: Journeys of Imagination which celebrates the transport related work of the renowned children’s author and illustrator John Burningham. Poster parades have to be installed early in the morning [...]
Reflecting on Consultancy Being a Young Consultant at London Transport Museum is a great way to gain new skills in a working environment. Since April 2011 I’ve been a part of the Young Consultants at LTM, and already I feel like I’ve gained a wide range of skills. One of the projects I did as [...]
London Transport Museum’s Poster Collection is one of the most sought after in terms of loans requests the Museum receives. A loan must be agreed months before an actual exhibition opens to ensure that all the relevant paperwork has been completed. This week, London Transport Museum has sent out seven posters and three artworks by [...]
