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  1. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    LGBT+ Linking Lives collecting project

    1 February 2019, 1 minute read

    Susanna Cordner reveals what attracted her to to her role as a Documentary Curator at London Transport Museum, and introduces her latest collecting project, LGBT+ Linking Lives.

    A bus, taxi and train with rainbow banners on for the Ride with Pride campaign
  2. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    New LGBT+ collecting

    By Ellie Miles, 12 November 2018

    Ellie Miles introduces some of the new objects in our collection as part of our LGBT+ collecting project

    Trans pride flag above 55 Broadway, 12 November 2018, photo © Andy De Santis
  3. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Museum Lates

    Reclaim the Station

    12 November 2018, 1 minute read

    Our Documentary Curator Susanna Cordner invites to our next Late Debate focusing on the innovative solution to reclaim spaces across the Capital.

    Colour drawing of a crowd on a tube train
  4. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    What is contemporary collecting?

    By Ellie Miles, 12 September 2018

    Our Documentary Curators bring more contemporary material to the Museum to enrich its historic collections. Documenting transport at the Museum means working with all kinds of material, including photographs, objects, stories, artworks, sound works and oral histories.

    A collage of photos laid on a table
  5. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)

    4 July 2018, 1 minute read

    David Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.

    detail of a poster showing a girl and boy surrounded by toys
  6. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions

    Poster Girls - Dorrit Dekk: The Travel Queen

    15 May 2018, 1 minute read

    David Bownes, Co-Curator of our exhibition Poster Girls, talks about the 'Travel Queen', 1960s designer Dorrit Dekk.

    Illustrations of a various figures in different uniform and costume seen within various roles in London life
  7. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Exhibitions

    C&RE - A modern couple who brought a new aesthetic to 1930s poster art

    19 April 2018, 2 minute read

    Find out about Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, the husband and wife designer duo who shared artistic and marital equality.

    A green, brown, black and red poster illustration of a woman, along with the words "come out to play"
  8. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions

    Introducing our new gallery, Digging Deeper

    By Simon Murphy, 19 March 2018, 1 minute read

    Simon Murphy introduces our new Digging Deeper gallery, telling the tunnelling story of London's transport over the last 200 years.

    A woman standing in fonrt of a projection of a Greathead shield