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  1. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Posters

    A look at London Transport's early advertising posters

    By Nick Gill, 19 March 2021, 3 minute read

    Discover how, in 1933, poster art helped to establish the brand identity of the newly formed London Passenger Transport Board, later known simply as London Transport.

    Three posters with colourful flowers and leafy landscapes
  2. Blog category
    •  Learning Programmes
    •  Guest blog

    Co-creating ‘Bus for the Future’ with London Transport Museum

    8 March 2021, 2 minute read

    To celebrate British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), we have developed a workshop for Key Stage 2 students to inspire the future generation of engineers and to start thinking about ways to create a sustainable future. In this blog, teachers from Mayfield Primary School share their experience working with us to create the workshop.

    Poster showing a red bus flying in the sky with the writing The Bus of the Future above it
  3. Blog category
    •  Learning Programmes

    Full STEAM ahead for British Science Week

    By Hannah Cushion, 1 March 2021, 2 minute read

    See what our Learning team has in store for KS2 and KS3 students, to celebrate British Science Week 2021 on the theme 'Innovating for the Future'.

    Three young female students in school uniforms walk between a green and white train and a red tube train
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    A brief history of the Thames Tunnel and the East London line

    22 February 2021, 2 minute read

    Katherine McAlpine, Director of the Brunel Museum, gives us an overview of the unusual history of the Thames Tunnel, London's first underwater tunnel, from visitor attraction to main railway connection between north and south London.

    Drawing of the Thames Tunnel showing the two entrances and pedestrians walking through
  5. Blog category
    •  Hidden London

    Aldwych - The end of the line

    By Dave Olney, 12 February 2021, 2 minute read

    As we launch a new virtual tour of Aldwych station, Dave Olney, lead Hidden London guide, gives you a taste of the station's history, from its opening in 1907 to its permanent closure in 1994, plus reveals the previously hidden parts of the station now accessible with our virtual tours.

    Aldwych station platform, 1958
  6. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: Can you identify the Tube map colours?

    2 February 2021, 5 minute read

    Can you tell the difference between Corporate Blue and Corporate Light Blue? Test your knowledge of the colours of the Tube lines with our ultimate colour quiz!

    Tube map with missing colours
  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    All on the Board - Changing London journeys with the power of words

    29 January 2021, 2 minute read

    Meet Ian and Jeremy, aka N1 & E1 of All on the Board, the formerly anonymous masked duo who brighten Londoner's journeys on the Underground with their inspirational messages written on station notice boards.

    Two men in London Underground uniforms pose at the bottom of an escalator in front of a white notice board
  8. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    2020 - The year that was

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 6 January 2021, 2 minute read

    Our Director, Sam Mullins, looks back on the challenges and achievements of 2020, with a hopeful view for the future of the Museum in 2021.

    view of two red double decker buses with people passing by