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Nick Gill, Art and poster store volunteer guide at the Museum Depot, presents a selection of iconic posters from the collection that reflect the great tradition of London Transport's poster art commissioning.

Discover London Transport's posters advertising travel to the West End and Theatreland through the ages.

Discover posters from our collection that advertised buses, trams and trolleybuses in London in the early part of the 20th century, and the apparent conflict between two modes of transport operated by the same company.

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.

Did 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.

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.

We 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.

Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades