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  1. Blog category
    •  Climate Crossroads
    •  Families

    Come on a Green Journey with us

    , 2 minute read

    Find out more about our Green Journey summer workshops, inspiring families to learn about possible solutions to climate change.

    A family playing with an interactive display in the Green Journey installation
  2. Blog category
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Celebrating London Climate Action Week with Mott MacDonald and Mastercard

    , 2 minute read

    To mark London Climate Action Week 2022, we talked to our Climate Crossroads sponsors, Mott MacDonald and Mastercard, about the ways they are helping to tackle climate change and build a greener London.

    Person cycling on a cycle lane
  3. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: Second World War

    By Nick Gill, , 3 minute read

    A look at wartime posters commissioned by London Transport during the Second World War, with Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill.

    Illustration of a man, woman and child in a field
  4. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: First World War

    By Nick Gill, , 3 minute read

    Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill presents a selection of posters commissioned by the UERL during the First World War, in the first instalment in a series of blogs exploring wartime posters in our collection.

    Illustration of women dragging a horse drawn carriage in a field
  5. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    A brief history of the pocket Underground map

    By Nick Gill, , 4 minute read

    From the first map produced by the UERL in 1908 to the revolutionary Harry Beck design and its modern iterations, enjoy a brief history of the Underground map by Museum volunteer Nick Gill.

    Map of the Undeground
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Energy Garden: Bringing Community Energy to the London Overground

    , 2 minute read

    Energy Garden is a Community Benefit Society that invests in renewable energy infrastructure to support community development. Find out how they help tackle the lack of accessible green space in urban environments by creating community-owned renewable energy and garden initiatives on transport infrastructure across London.

    An allotment on the side of a platform at a London Overground station
  7. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Routemaster: A design icon

    , 2 minute read

    Museum Depot volunteer Grahame Bath talks about one of his favourite design icons in our collection, the Routemaster bus.

    Routemaster double deck motor bus bonnet No RM1737, 1963
  8. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme
    •  Learning Programmes
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Engineering Change - Takeover Day

    , 2 minute read

    As part of Kids in Museums Takeover Day, on 12 November 2021 children from Wembley Primary School are putting their questions to grown-ups in the transport industry to find out what actions they are taking to help build a greener future. Find out more.

    Three Year 5 boys in school uniform wearing yellow high vis vests writing down ideas