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  1. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Collections

    Where are all the women?

    By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute read

    Ellie Miles takes a look at some of the stories that were submitted as part of the Where are all the Women project

    Female Lathe Operators at Acton Works 1942
  2. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    LGBT+ Linking Lives collecting project

    , 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
  3. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    New LGBT+ collecting

    By Ellie Miles,

    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
  4. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Museum Lates

    Reclaim the Station

    , 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
  5. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    What is contemporary collecting?

    By Ellie Miles,

    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
  6. Blog category
    •  Families

    Letter from Santa

    , 1 minute read

    Read a letter from Santa and be inspired to come and find him at the London Transport Museum. You may even want to go on a Vintage bus ride to see London's Christmas lights!

    A photo of Santa sitting at a typewriter, with sacks in the fore and background