Blog posts
Shari Royer, designer of the carnival headdress on display in our Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce exhibition, reveals the inextricable link between her love for Carnival and her career as a costume designer.
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- Contemporary Curators
Women’s Safety and Welfare - A new collecting project
, 2 minute readAs part of a new collecting project documenting women’s safety and welfare on the transport network, we are hosting an event at the Museum on 23 May 2022 to discuss these issues across the heritage sector. Find out more in this blog by Documentary Curator, Rosamund West.
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- Contemporary Curators
'I helped open the Elizabeth line' - Documenting contemporary transport history
, 2 minute readDocumentary Curator Rosamund West shares her memories of the Elizabeth line trial operations day at Woolwich station.
Josh Burrell, Senior Press Officer at TfL, shares insights of his experience as a member of the Advisory Board behind our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce.
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- Guest blog
- Museum Lates
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.
The cast and crew of Sunday's best, one of the films commissioned for our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, reflect on the experience of making the film.
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- Exhibitions
How we made our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce
By Laura Sleath, , 2 minute readFind out how we developed our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, working closely with an Advisory Board made up of people of Caribbean heritage, in this blog by Senior Curator Laura Sleath.
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.