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  1. Blog category
    •  Learning Programmes

    School Early Explorer Mornings at London Transport Museum

    Early Explorer mornings at the Museum are a fantastic opportunity for students with a broad range of Special Educational Needs to explore the Museum while it is quieter and less busy.

    A child looking at the train simulator in our Future Engineers gallery
  2. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    Young People’s Skills Programme

    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
  3. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    New LGBT+ collecting

    By Ellie Miles,

    Ellie Miles introduces some of the new objects in our collection as part of our LGBT+ collecting project

    Trans pride flag above 55 Broadway, 12 November 2018, photo © Andy De Santis
  4. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Museum Lates

    Reclaim the Station

    , 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
  5. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Battle Bus

    Battle Bus project 2014-2018

    We take a look back at five years of the Battle Bus project, restoring a vintage bus and a community programme exploring the war

    Four vintage buses on the Covent Garden Piazza
  6. Blog category
    •  Battle Bus

    Forget-me-not

    Discover our new installation and meet the artist behind the forget-me-not display in the Museum, commissioned to remember the thousands of transport workers involved in the First World War

    A display of forget-me-nots inside the museum
  7. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Friday Late: Power, Play and Politics

    , 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
  8. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    What is contemporary collecting?

    By Ellie Miles,

    Our Documentary Curators bring more contemporary material to the Museum to enrich its historic collections. Documenting transport at the Museum means working with all kinds of material, including photographs, objects, stories, artworks, sound works and oral histories.

    A collage of photos laid on a table