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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Preparation! Preparation! Preparation!

    By Geoff Rowe, 28 May 2020, 2 minute read

    While the Museum remains closed, the team are not standing still. We've been cleaning and preparing every part of the Museum to get ready to welcome visitors again soon.

    A wide shot of London Transport Museum with two red double decker buses in the foreground and historic buses in the background
  2. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    A visit to Covent Garden

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 20 May 2020, 2 minute read

    We are launching a new blog series, Welcome Aboard, to keep you updated on how the Museum team are doing during lockdown. In the first instalment, our Director Sam Mullins visits the sleeping Museum for the first time in two months.

    View of London Transport Museum entrance on Covent Garden Piazza
  3. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Museum Late: Night on the tiles

    5 February 2020, 2 minute read

    Our Museum Late: Night on the tiles is all about the history of London’s rich nightlife from Victorian music halls and night clubs, to subcultures which have influenced London and the world. The Museum of Youth Culture will also be joining us to talk about their latest collecting project, Grown Up In Britain.

    Poster depicting people dancing on a dance floor with a dj in the background
  4. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Bus Fare: Stories of The London Bus

    6 March 2019, 2 minute read

    Whet your appetite with a glimpse at the introduction for the 'Bus Fare - Collected Writings on the London Bus' book. Take a look at how transport has changed over the years, yet there is still a familiarity to the journeys today as there was on a Victorian Omnibus.

    An illustration of cream bus ticket on a red background, with the Bus Fare book title across it
  5. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Museum Lates

    Reclaim the Station

    12 November 2018, 1 minute read

    Our Documentary Curator Susanna Cordner invites to our next Late Debate focusing on the innovative solution to reclaim spaces across the Capital.

    Colour drawing of a crowd on a tube train
  6. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Friday Late: Power, Play and Politics

    13 September 2018, 1 minute read

    In our final Friday Late of the Poster Girls series we're celebrating the essence of the exhibition, with a programme of voices representing a diverse range of talent and female empowerment, through lectures, our makers market, tours and 1980s inspired workshops.

    Photo of multicoloured earrings in the shape of triangles
  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins

    5 August 2018, 2 minute read

    London Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.

    A model showing workers building the first Underground tunnels
  8. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum

    5 June 2018, 2 minute read

    Explore London Transport Museum from Skanska engineer Emma's perspective. As she explores the Museum, you can find out how much engineering has changed since the Victorian era and explore ways to make London cleaner and greener.

    A side profile photo of a woman reading something on a wall