Find out how we developed our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, working closely with an Advisory Board made up of people of Caribbean heritage, in this blog by Senior Curator Laura Sleath.
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.
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.
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.
Our latest exhibition Untangling the Tracks takes a closer look at the Thameslink Programme, a major project to increase capacity, improve connections and provide greater reliability on the Thameslink route. Senior Curator Laura Sleath tells us the history behind the only north-south mainline railway to cross London.
Senior Curator Laura Sleath presents some of the posters in our new Poster Parade, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the District line.
Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades
Ellie Miles takes a look at some of the stories that were submitted as part of the Where are all the Women project
