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  1. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Exploring the past and shaping the future

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, , 3 minute read

    Our Director reveals what we have in store for our visitors in 2020.

    Entrance of London Transport Museum
  2. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog
    •  Hidden London

    Uncovering Hidden London

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, , 3 minute read

    In this blog, our Director talks all things Hidden London, from the new immersive exhibition at the Museum and a brand new illustrated book, to the popular Hidden London tours of disused stations across the transport network.

    A section of the Hidden London exhibition showing a disused ticket window and desk
  3. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Bus Fare: Stories of The London Bus

    , 2 minute read

    Whet your appetite with a glimpse at the introduction for the 'Bus Fare - Collected Writings on the London Bus' book. Take a look at how transport has changed over the years, yet there is still a familiarity to the journeys today as there was on a Victorian Omnibus.

    An illustration of cream bus ticket on a red background, with the Bus Fare book title across it
  4. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Picking up speed in 2019

    By Sam Mullins, OBE,

    Our Director, Sam Mullins, takes a look at what's coming up in 2019

    Sam Mullins OBE standing on the back of Battle Bus
  5. 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
  6. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Friday Late: Power, Play and Politics

    , 1 minute read

    In our final Friday Late of the Poster Girls series we're celebrating the essence of the exhibition, with a programme of voices representing a diverse range of talent and female empowerment, through lectures, our makers market, tours and 1980s inspired workshops.

    Photo of multicoloured earrings in the shape of triangles
  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins

    , 2 minute read

    London Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.

    A model showing workers building the first Underground tunnels
  8. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum

    , 2 minute read

    Explore London Transport Museum from Skanska engineer Emma's perspective. As she explores the Museum, you can find out how much engineering has changed since the Victorian era and explore ways to make London cleaner and greener.

    A side profile photo of a woman reading something on a wall