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Let's get digital! Discover the Museum's new and improved displays
By Sau-Fun Mo, , 2 minute readWith upgraded digital screens and information points, interactive displays and new digital installations, the Museum has never looked better! Find out more in this blog by our Head of Design & Presentation, Sau-Fun Mo.
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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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How can we use design to support the new ‘normal’?
By Sau-Fun Mo, , 3 minute readOur Head of Design looks at how new signage and wayfinding systems are going to become an essential part of everyone’s journey, be it for business, school, leisure or essential, after months of 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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#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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#MyJourneyToPride – Collecting LGBT+ experiences
By Ellie Miles,Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades
The District line is 150 years old! We are celebrating its past, present and future throughout 2019, as part of TfL’s District 150 celebrations. In this first blog installment, our curator Simon Murphy unravels the history of the District line through maps from our collection.
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Where are all the women?
By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute readEllie Miles takes a look at some of the stories that were submitted as part of the Where are all the Women project