On the 1st March we were delighted to welcome students from Central St Martin’s University to our Museum Depot for the day as part of our current Access to Art collaborative course with the University. Volunteers John Dodd, David Burnell, Tom Cavanagh and Stephen West were on hand to offer a number of in depth [...]
On Saturday 7th January the Young Consultants took a trip to the London Transport Museum Depot. We had the amazing opportunity to work with curator Claire Dobbin, and we were luckily granted the chance to help select the pocket maps to appear in the upcoming exhibition “Mind the Map”. The Depot, based in Acton Town [...]
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 [...]
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 Friday 9th September a team of curators and museum technical assistants arrived early at London Transport Museum to install the new extended poster parade, John Burningham: Journeys of Imagination which celebrates the transport related work of the renowned children’s author and illustrator John Burningham. Poster parades have to be installed early in the morning [...]
Reflecting on Consultancy Being a Young Consultant at London Transport Museum is a great way to gain new skills in a working environment. Since April 2011 I’ve been a part of the Young Consultants at LTM, and already I feel like I’ve gained a wide range of skills. One of the projects I did as [...]
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 [...]
During the induction week young volunteers were given the opportunity to become familiar with the Museum. Over a period of four days the young people took part in a variety of different activities and met with different members of staff to help build up their knowledge of the Museum and better understand how it operates. [...]
Since November 2009 we have been working with an amazing group of young people, known to the Museum as the Young Consultants. Kway Elvis Adelah Godwin Will Over the last 18 months these five young people have helped to shape our policies and ways of working with young people across the Museum. They have [...]
Excitement in the office as the artwork for a small exhibition to celebrate the end of the Bus Shelter project arrives! Here’s a sneak preview of one of the panels, which should be going up in our temporary exhibition space by the end of the week!
