Blog posts
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.
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Please Mind the Ghosts - Discover a new AR app at our Friday Late
, 3 minute readPatricia 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.
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.
As we launch a new virtual tour of Aldwych station, Dave Olney, lead Hidden London guide, gives you a taste of the station's history, from its opening in 1907 to its permanent closure in 1994, plus reveals the previously hidden parts of the station now accessible with our virtual tours.
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New discoveries at Clapham South's deep level shelter
By Siddy Holloway, , 3 minute readDid you know that the deep-level shelter at Clapham South was also used as an archive? The recent removal of some of the archive shelving by our Hidden London team revealed something unexpected. Siddy Holloway tells you more about the findings in this blog.
Our Museum Late: Night on the tiles is all about the history of London’s rich nightlife from Victorian music halls and night clubs, to subcultures which have influenced London and the world. The Museum of Youth Culture will also be joining us to talk about their latest collecting project, Grown Up In Britain.
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Uncovering Hidden London
By Sam Mullins, OBE, , 3 minute readIn this blog, our Director talks all things Hidden London, from the new immersive exhibition at the Museum and a brand new illustrated book, to the popular Hidden London tours of disused stations across the transport network.
Whet your appetite with a glimpse at the introduction for the 'Bus Fare - Collected Writings on the London Bus' book. Take a look at how transport has changed over the years, yet there is still a familiarity to the journeys today as there was on a Victorian Omnibus.