At the Museum Depot we have a fantastic team who regularly work together to restore and maintain some of our signalling equipment that we have acquired, such as the York Road and Marble Arch signal frames. They are currently working on restoring Marble Arch back in to working order, and have gone through a long [...]
After a couple of sessions with the Museum’s Friends and volunteers, and some great editing by film maker Geoff Marshall, the first round of Depot Discoveries films is now available to view on YouTube! Head over to www.youtube.com/ltmuseumvideo to check them out, and let us know what you think. Our next Depot Open Weekend is [...]
On Wednesday 30th November one of our esteemed volunteers, John Campbell, gave a tour of the museum’s Depot in Acton. The tour was given to a group of students who are using our collection as a starting point for learning English and improving their confidence with travelling on London Transport. Having given tours on the museum’s collection [...]
On Saturday 19th November two of our volunteers, Tom Cavanagh and John Dodd, delivered the first official tours to the public on the museum’s art and poster collection at the Acton Depot. Visitors had the opportunity to take a peek at the extensive collection of works held in the art and poster stores, and learn all [...]
On Thursday 3rd November volunteers were present at the LTM Depot in Acton to assist the curatorial department with sorting and accessioning ephemera material to add to the collection. The Museum receives a vast amount of material through public and private donations, and volunteers are on hand on a regular basis to help out. Fred [...]
On the 8-9th October London Transport Museum opened its doors to the public at its Museum Depot in Acton. Each year the Museum opens its collection up to the public for two weekends in March and October. Each weekend is themed, and this time the focus was on highlighting our Engineering collection. As part of the theme [...]
This week saw the start of a new project with a group from Oaktree Community Centre on the South Acton estate. Over the next 5 weeks we’re going to be exploring the museum’s collections online and at the Museum Depot in Acton. The group will be learning new digital skills and we’ll be finding out what they think [...]
Earlier this year the wonderful Charlotte Stevenson undertook a curatorial internship here at London Transport Museum. Charlotte is now busy writing her final paper, however she has taken some time out to write about her experience below. Curatorial (Conservation) Internship 31st May 2011 – 3rd August 2011, by Charlotte Stevenson Over Summer I completed an internship at [...]
