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  1. Blog category
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    •  Contemporary Curators

    Does transport shape our experiences?

    In this blog Andy De Santis – Vice Chair of OUTbound , TfL’s LGBT+ Staff Network – shares with us how London transport has shaped his relationships and experiences.

    Andy de Santis standing in front of a large Underground roundel
  2. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Collections

    Where are all the women?

    By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute read

    Ellie Miles takes a look at some of the stories that were submitted as part of the Where are all the Women project

    Female Lathe Operators at Acton Works 1942
  3. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    LGBT+ Linking Lives collecting project

    , 1 minute read

    Susanna Cordner reveals what attracted her to to her role as a Documentary Curator at London Transport Museum, and introduces her latest collecting project, LGBT+ Linking Lives.

    A bus, taxi and train with rainbow banners on for the Ride with Pride campaign
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Posters

    Prize for Illustration Notes from a winner - By Julia Allum

    A note from Julia on the process behind winning the Silver award for her poster design, and what she has been up to since.

    A photo of Julia holding her winning poster, with the three parakeets adorned on roundels
  5. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    New LGBT+ collecting

    By Ellie Miles,

    Ellie Miles introduces some of the new objects in our collection as part of our LGBT+ collecting project

    Trans pride flag above 55 Broadway, 12 November 2018, photo © Andy De Santis
  6. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Museum Lates

    Reclaim the Station

    , 1 minute read

    Our Documentary Curator Susanna Cordner invites to our next Late Debate focusing on the innovative solution to reclaim spaces across the Capital.

    Colour drawing of a crowd on a tube train
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    •  Collections
    •  Battle Bus

    Battle Bus project 2014-2018

    We take a look back at five years of the Battle Bus project, restoring a vintage bus and a community programme exploring the war

    Four vintage buses on the Covent Garden Piazza
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    •  Battle Bus

    Forget-me-not

    Discover our new installation and meet the artist behind the forget-me-not display in the Museum, commissioned to remember the thousands of transport workers involved in the First World War

    A display of forget-me-nots inside the museum