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    •  Quiz

    Quiz: Do you know our sporting posters?

    To celebrate our gift range based on sporting posters, now available in our online shop, we've put together a quiz to test your sporting (and poster!) knowledge...

    Wimbledon poster
  2. Do you think you know the most iconic posters in our collection? See if you can spot the correct missing item on these 10 artworks?

    A tube of acrylic paint depicting the Underground network
  3. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: Are you a moquette master?

    From the French word for carpet, moquette is a tough woollen fabric, used on transport all over the world. It was introduced to London in the 1920s. How much do you know about the city's most iconic fabric?

    Brown, yellow and orange patterned moquette fabric
  4. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How well do you know London Transport Museum?

    To celebrate our 40th birthday, we've put together a quiz to test how much you know about the Museum, our collection and the big facts from our history. How much do you know?

    The front entrance of the Museum
  5. Blog category
    •  Posters

    Celebrating London's tramways past and present

    By Georgia Morley, , 1 minute read

    We are starting the new year with a celebration of London’s tramways in our new Poster Parade on display at the Museum from 10 January to 26 March 2020. Find out more in this blog by Curator Georgia Morley.

    Poster depicting a trolleybus to Kingston
  6. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Museum Depot

    Our Q Stock story: one year on

    , 3 minute read

    An update on our Q Stock restoration project by Project Manager Jullian Urry.

    Volunteers working on the inside of a train car
  7. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Untangling the Tracks: communicating change

    , 2 minute read

    Senior Curator Laura Sleath looks at Transport for London's long history of producing posters to keep passengers informed about upgrades to the network. This theme is further explored in our exhibition Untangling the Tracks,

    A young woman looks at posters
  8. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: What Thameslink station are you?

    Inspired by some of the stations highlighted in our Untangling the Tracks exhibition, you can now find out what Thameslink station you’re most like! Take our personality quiz below and share your results with us using the hashtag #UntanglingTheTracks.

    Untangling the Tracks exhibition