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  1. Blog category
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Teaming up with Mastercard to create a greener future

    , 2 minute read

    This summer, we’re teaming up with Mastercard to offer our visitors the opportunity to take a small action that will help restore some of the world’s forests. Find out how!

    Parent watching as child reaches up to stick leaf-shaped magnets onto display shaped like tree
  2. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about Hidden London tours?

    , 5 minute read

    Test your knowledge about our Hidden London tours! When you step into the past and explore behind the scenes of Underground sites, what makes each location different, and what can you expect to see?

    Statue of Sherlock Holmes in profile, wearing deerstalker hat and holding pipe
  3. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about the London Underground?

    , 5 minute read

    How much do you know about the history of the London Underground?

  4. Blog category
    •  Communities

    Eat Club at London Transport Museum: Food is a Vehicle

    , 5 minute read

    How can making a group meal give young people special access to the collection of the London Transport Museum and help them explore the theme of travel? David Thomson from Eat Club looks back at a special event held in October.

    Two participants of Eat Club sat around a table with Canteen inspired food
  5. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Underground’s Unlikeliest ‘Ghost’

    , 3 minute read

    Museum Volunteer and Doctor of transport history Rudi Newman reveals the story of one of the few confirmed ‘hauntings’ on the Underground

    A locomotive emerging from a tunnel
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Collections

    Curating the new Poster Parade: Tom Eckersley

    , 2 minute read

    Go behind the scenes of our latest Poster Parade with Danyi Wei and Wenyi Shi, the former interns who worked with our curators to put together the display, showcasing the work of influential British designer Tom Eckersley.

    Two people posing in front of a poster display
  7. Blog category
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Abellio's electric bus - Making transport history

    , 2 minute read

    At our July Depot Open Days, visitors had the chance to explore the state of the art Alexander Dennis ADL/BYD Enviro 400 bus. Find out what our visitors asked the Abellio team about their electric buses.

    An Abellio ADL/BYD Enviro bus (side view) at the Museum Depot in Acton
  8. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about the Elizabeth line?

    , 5 minute read

    How much do you know about the history of the Elizabeth line and its vital statistics, now that London's newest railway is open to the public?

    Elizabeth line route map