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  1. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions

    How we made our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce

    By Laura Sleath, , 2 minute read

    Find 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.

    A Black man sits across from another Black man and a White men interviewing him for a job
  2. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: Can you identify the Tube map colours?

    , 5 minute read

    Can you tell the difference between Corporate Blue and Corporate Light Blue? Test your knowledge of the colours of the Tube lines with our ultimate colour quiz!

    Tube map with missing colours
  3. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Collections

    A brief history of tran-sports!

    By Ellie Miles, , 1 minute read

    Did you know that London Underground has its own football league? And that London transport sports teams history dates back to the early twentieth century? Contemporary Curator Ellie Miles tells you more in this blog.

    Six football players wearing a blue kit standing in line in front of two red double decker buses
  4. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How well do you know the Tube map?

    Do you know your Overground from your Emirates Airline? Think you know what colour the Elizabeth line will be? Test out your Tube map knowledge with our latest quiz!

    AN early version of the Underground map as designed by Harry Beck
  5. Blog category
    •  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
  6. 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
  7. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners

    By Ellie Miles, , 2 minute read

    Contemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.

    A collage of photographs laid out on a table
  8. 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