Blog posts
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...
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?
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- Contemporary Curators
Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners
By Ellie Miles, , 2 minute readContemporary 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.
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?
To celebrate our 40th birthday, we've put together a quiz to test how much you know about the Museum, our collection and the big facts from our history. How much do you know?
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- Contemporary Curators
#MyJourneyToPride - Here's what happened!
By Ellie Miles, , 3 minute readWe partnered up with museum freelancer Sacha Coward and invited people to use the #MyJourneyToPride hashtag to document and share their stories of travelling to Pride in London and UK Black Pride 2019. We also asked some people to record video diaries of their journeys in order to create a picture of the lived experience of a group of people from the LGBT+ community in London in 2019. Find out what happened.
Inspired by some of the stations highlighted in our Untangling the Tracks exhibition, you can now find out what Thameslink station you’re most like! Take our personality quiz below and share your results with us using the hashtag #UntanglingTheTracks.
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- Collections
- Contemporary Curators
#MyJourneyToPride – Collecting LGBT+ experiences
By Ellie Miles,Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades