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  1. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    Young People's Blog Series - Reflecting on the Young Freelancers Experience: One Year On

    16 November 2020, 2 minute read

    Aagya Pradhan, one of the Young Freelancers in our Young People Skills programme, reflects on how the programme has helped her to explore aspects of museum work she wouldn't have considered before.

    A young woman smiles to the camera with a map of London visible in the background
  2. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme
    •  Learning Programmes

    Young People's Blog Series - How to get the best out of being an apprentice

    9 November 2020, 2 minute read

    We're launching a new series of blogs written by some of the young freelancers and apprentices in our Young People's Skills Programme. In the first installment, Bayley gives useful tips and advice to young people to make the most of an apprenticeship.

    A young Black man with short hair wearing a dark green jumper with a yellow and black locomotive in the background
  3. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Family volunteering at the Museum Depot

    2 December 2019, 3 minute read

    Volunteer Resource Manager Sam Clift report back from our fist family volunteering day at the Museum Depot. The day provided families with an opportunity to visit our Museum Depot on a weekend afternoon, and spend some recreational time together helping to maintain the tracks of our London Transport Mu

    A men and two children walking by a red tube train
  4. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Museum Depot

    Our Q Stock story: one year on

    11 November 2019, 3 minute read

    An update on our Q Stock restoration project by Project Manager Jullian Urry.

    Volunteers working on the inside of a train car
  5. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Celebrating 20 years of the Museum Depot

    11 October 2019, 3 minute read

    Our Museum Depot celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Find out all about this marvellous transport treasure trove in Acton Town.

    View of three historic trains, one yellow, one red and one white and green
  6. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot
    •  Families

    Love Your Line - Museum Depot Open Weekend

    15 April 2019, 3 minute read

    Celebrating the Victoria Line's 50th, Jubilee Line's 40th and District Lines 150th anniversaries at the Acton Depot Open Weekend. Find out more about the Tube lines you Love!

    illustrated advert for Love Your Line, with a mimic of the Tube map in the shape of hearts along the lines
  7. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    Young People’s Skills Programme

    6 December 2018

    Young Freelancer Aksana Khan talks about her first big project which involved supporting the Young People’s Skills Programme.

    A group of young people sitting at the back of a bus in the Museum
  8. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    In memory of Khadija Saye 1992 - 2017

    28 June 2017, 2 minute read

    Reflecting on the life of Khadija Saye (1992-2017) and her time as Young Freelancer with the Museum's Learning team.

    A photo of two women, teaching children on a tour