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Patricia Lalla, Owner of Wolfskill Ltd and contributor at our Friday Late - Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, talks about the personal and historic background of her Augmented Reality prototype app, Please Mind The Ghosts™, bringing to life characters of different eras and ethnicities, all connected to the Windrush story.

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.

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

The Underground Group and London Transport were major sponsors of poster art and commissioned a huge variety of artists and designers during the 20th century. In our latest Poster Parade, we explore the wide range of artistic and graphic styles and techniques used by some of those artists. Find out more in this blog by the two Curatorial interns who put together our Poster Techniques display.

Discover posters from our collection promoting travel by bus and river from 1945 to today, with Museum Depot volunteer guide Nick Gill.

Read about artist Dorothy Burroughes, who designed posters for London Transport in the 1920s, and get inspired to take part in Children's Art Week, from 28 June to 1 July 2021, and design your own poster with your family.

In this past year of closures, one thing that we've all been doing more of is walking around our local neighbourhoods. At our Museum After Dark event on 17 June 2021, journalist and writer Erica Buist will be collecting your thoughts and experiences to create a collective piece of writing. Find out more in this blog.

Rudi Newman, a Doctor of transport history and London Transport Museum volunteer, talks about one of the highlights in our collection, the Metropolitan Railway steam locomotive No. 23.