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  1. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    #MyJourneyToPride - Here's what happened!

    By Ellie Miles, , 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
  2. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    #MyJourneyToPride – Collecting LGBT+ experiences

    By Ellie Miles,

    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
  3. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Collections

    Where are all the women?

    By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute read

    Ellie Miles takes a look at some of the stories that were submitted as part of the Where are all the Women project

    Female Lathe Operators at Acton Works 1942
  4. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Picking up speed in 2019

    By Sam Mullins, OBE,

    Our Director, Sam Mullins, takes a look at what's coming up in 2019

    Sam Mullins OBE standing on the back of Battle Bus
  5. Blog category
    •  Collections

    Celebrating Britain's transport textile

    By Georgia Morley,

    Georgia Morley introduces the Celebrating Britain's Transport Textile project, exploring the use of moquette on the transport system since the 1920s

    A red, black green and yellow paid moquette pattern
  6. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    New LGBT+ collecting

    By Ellie Miles,

    Ellie Miles introduces some of the new objects in our collection as part of our LGBT+ collecting project

    Trans pride flag above 55 Broadway, 12 November 2018, photo © Andy De Santis
  7. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    What is contemporary collecting?

    By Ellie Miles,

    Our Documentary Curators bring more contemporary material to the Museum to enrich its historic collections. Documenting transport at the Museum means working with all kinds of material, including photographs, objects, stories, artworks, sound works and oral histories.

    A collage of photos laid on a table
  8. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Bryan Avery - An Appreciation

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, , 2 minute read

    Our Director San Mullins remembers Bryan Avery, the architect who led the design team for the extension and refurbishment of the Museum in November 2007.

    Black and white image of a smiling Bryan Avery