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Our Museum Director reveals what families can expect from our Depot family summer season.

We are getting ready to open the doors to our Museum Depot this summer. Find out what we have in store for our visitors.

Our Museum Director returns to Covent Garden with a few colleagues to check on the sleeping London Transport Museum

Find out how we have been keeping the Museum alive in your hearts, minds and across your digital devices during lockdown.

We are launching a new blog series, Welcome Aboard, to keep you updated on how the Museum team are doing during lockdown. In the first instalment, our Director Sam Mullins visits the sleeping Museum for the first time in two months.

Contemporary 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.

London Transport Museum has stood proudly in the Covent Garden Piazza since it was open on 28 March 1980. Over the past four decades Covent Garden has been transformed into a vibrant quarter of London, with the Museum contributing to the distinct personality of the area.

Our Director reveals what we have in store for our visitors in 2020.