Our day out at Kew could not have been better. The sun was shining, the ducks were out and about and spring was in the air. There were also plenty of aeroplanes in the sky, making for a challenging soundscape! Rhys ran through how to use some stereo system recording devices including a Marantz PMD 661digital recorder and [...]
The Paintings in Hospitals project, another strand of the Access to Art project, is a collaboration between the museum, the charity Paintings in Hospitals, Orleans House Gallery and Richmond Carers. As part of the project the museum recently worked with Richmond Carers and their families to use the poster collections as inspiration to make a [...]
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 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 [...]
This week’s poster is a Museum classic. It has been selected by a group of ESOL learners as part of London Transport Museum’s Access to Art project in partnership with Ealing Libraries. For the past three weeks 16 individuals from countries including Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka and Yemen have been meeting with ESOL tutor [...]
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 [...]
Buy related products This week we’re showing the film Erasing David at the museum as part of our events for the Sense and the City exhibition. The documentary explores the use of surveillance technology in modern Britain, so volunteer Jon Burdett has picked out ‘Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes’ by Mark Thomas. He explains: ‘The [...]
This week’s poster is from 1940 and shows the instantly recognisable Johnston typeface. This was designed by Edward Johnston and has been used all over the Underground since 1917. You’ll have seen it on lots of posters and signage. On posters it was usually added to the design at the printing stage. The typeface was [...]
This week we’ve we’ve picked out a this snippet of fashion history from the poster collection. It is one of 10 posters made in 2006 to celebrate 100 years of the Bakerloo line as part of a collaboration between Platform for Art and the Royal College of Fashion. Each poster was inspired by a decade [...]
Last week we had spring daffodils, but this week’s poster is a bit more seasonal – Kathleen Stenning’s cosy vision of winter travel from 1925. This poster is one of four in a series by Stenning. The others encouraged people to travel underground so they could avoid getting wet, not get lost and take cover [...]
