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How we made our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce
By Laura Sleath, , 2 minute readFind out how we developed our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, working closely with an Advisory Board made up of people of Caribbean heritage, in this blog by Senior Curator Laura Sleath.
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- Welcome Aboard
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What's in store for families and schools
By Fenella Goodhart, , 2 minute readNow that we've reopened our doors, we're back on track to deliver our fantastic programmes for families and schools, starting with fun activities at the Museum in Covent Garden and at the Museum Depot in Acton during May half term.
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- Contemporary Curators
- Collections
A brief history of tran-sports!
By Ellie Miles, , 1 minute readDid you know that London Underground has its own football league? And that London transport sports teams history dates back to the early twentieth century? Contemporary Curator Ellie Miles tells you more in this blog.
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- Welcome Aboard
Opening the Museum Depot for a new summer season
By Fenella Goodhart, , 2 minute readWe are getting ready to open the doors to our Museum Depot this summer. Find out what we have in store for our visitors.
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- Welcome Aboard
Inspiring curiosity at London Transport Museum
By Fenella Goodhart, , 2 minute readFind out how we have been keeping the Museum alive in your hearts, minds and across your digital devices during lockdown.
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- Contemporary Curators
Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners
By Ellie Miles, , 2 minute readContemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.
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- Contemporary Curators
#MyJourneyToPride - Here's what happened!
By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute readWe partnered up with museum freelancer Sacha Coward and invited people to use the #MyJourneyToPride hashtag to document and share their stories of travelling to Pride in London and UK Black Pride 2019. We also asked some people to record video diaries of their journeys in order to create a picture of the lived experience of a group of people from the LGBT+ community in London in 2019. Find out what happened.
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Thameslink: A history through the city
By Laura Sleath, , 3 minute readOur latest exhibition Untangling the Tracks takes a closer look at the Thameslink Programme, a major project to increase capacity, improve connections and provide greater reliability on the Thameslink route. Senior Curator Laura Sleath tells us the history behind the only north-south mainline railway to cross London.