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The Underground Group and London Transport were major sponsors of poster art and commissioned a huge variety of artists and designers during the 20th century. In our latest Poster Parade, we explore the wide range of artistic and graphic styles and techniques used by some of those artists. Find out more in this blog by the two Curatorial interns who put together our Poster Techniques display.

Discover posters from our collection promoting travel by bus and river from 1945 to today, with Museum Depot volunteer guide Nick Gill.

Read about artist Dorothy Burroughes, who designed posters for London Transport in the 1920s, and get inspired to take part in Children's Art Week, from 28 June to 1 July 2021, and design your own poster with your family.

In this past year of closures, one thing that we've all been doing more of is walking around our local neighbourhoods. At our Museum After Dark event on 17 June 2021, journalist and writer Erica Buist will be collecting your thoughts and experiences to create a collective piece of writing. Find out more in this blog.

Rudi Newman, a Doctor of transport history and London Transport Museum volunteer, talks about one of the highlights in our collection, the Metropolitan Railway steam locomotive No. 23.

Depot volunteer guide Nick Gill explores the 1964 poster 'Music in London' by Hans Unger and Eberhard Schulze, one of the thousands of iconic posters in our world-renowned collection of transport posters and artworks.

Thomas, one of our Volunteer Welcome Hosts, talks about one of his favourite Underground maps in our collection and shares his experience as a wheelchair user travelling on the Underground.

Nick Gill, Art and poster store volunteer guide at the Museum Depot, presents a selection of iconic posters from the collection that reflect the great tradition of London Transport's poster art commissioning.