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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Let's get digital! Discover the Museum's new and improved displays

    By Sau-Fun Mo, 12 May 2021, 2 minute read

    With upgraded digital screens and information points, interactive displays and new digital installations, the Museum has never looked better! Find out more in this blog by our Head of Design & Presentation, Sau-Fun Mo.

    A child crawling on the floor of the London by Design gallery
  2. Blog category
    •  Posters

    Winter Wonderland - Discover our festive Poster Parade

    By Georgia Morley, 2 December 2020, 1 minute read

    Senior Curator Georgia Morley shares five of her favourite posters from our new Poster Parade Winter Wonderland celebrating the magic of wintertime in London through the years.

    Winter fun-skating by Anna Hymas, 2016. Poster depicting people skating
  3. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Collections

    A brief history of tran-sports!

    By Ellie Miles, 11 September 2020, 1 minute read

    Did you know that London Underground has its own football league? And that London transport sports teams history dates back to the early twentieth century? Contemporary Curator Ellie Miles tells you more in this blog.

    Six football players wearing a blue kit standing in line in front of two red double decker buses
  4. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    How can we use design to support the new ‘normal’?

    By Sau-Fun Mo, 24 June 2020, 3 minute read

    Our Head of Design looks at how new signage and wayfinding systems are going to become an essential part of everyone’s journey, be it for business, school, leisure or essential, after months of lockdown.

    A collage of health and safety signs
  5. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners

    By Ellie Miles, 31 March 2020, 2 minute read

    Contemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.

    A collage of photographs laid out on a table
  6. Blog category
    •  Posters

    Celebrating London's tramways past and present

    By Georgia Morley, 3 January 2020, 1 minute read

    We are starting the new year with a celebration of London’s tramways in our new Poster Parade on display at the Museum from 10 January to 26 March 2020. Find out more in this blog by Curator Georgia Morley.

    Poster depicting a trolleybus to Kingston
  7. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    #MyJourneyToPride - Here's what happened!

    By Ellie Miles, 22 August 2019, 3 minute read

    We partnered up with museum freelancer Sacha Coward and invited people to use the #MyJourneyToPride hashtag to document and share their stories of travelling to Pride in London and UK Black Pride 2019. We also asked some people to record video diaries of their journeys in order to create a picture of the lived experience of a group of people from the LGBT+ community in London in 2019. Find out what happened.

    Poster depicting 6 double decker buses in the colours of the LGBT rainbow flag
  8. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    #MyJourneyToPride – Collecting LGBT+ experiences

    By Ellie Miles, 17 June 2019

    Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades

    A station with rainbow-coloured seats and a trans flag themed roundel