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  1. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Discovering our Museum Depot: The Acton Access Project

    , 7 minute read

    Acton Access is a major new project for London Transport Museum, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In this blog, Henry Flynn (Senior Curator for Collections Management and curatorial lead on Acton Access) discusses more about the project, what it involves, and what its aims are.

    Project Curator Becky is seen measuring an item
  2. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Wearing our roundel with pride

    , 4 minute read

    Alexander Garnett-Scherer shares his recent work developing and producing a new pride roundel pin badge for LGBT+ colleagues and allies.

    Rainbow crossing in the Museum
  3. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Designing a new Tube-inspired collection

    , 5 minute read

    Harriet Wallace-Jones and Emma Sewell are the textile designers behind many of Transport for London's moquette designs. They share the story behind working with us on our exclusive new Tube 160 Wallace Sewell Collection to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground.

    Flatlay photo of a Tube map, colour samples, reel of thread and colourful fabric
  4. Blog category
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Volunteers

    Working with the Q stock restoration team

    , 2 minute read

    Museum Depot Volunteer Andy Simpson shares his experience working on the restoration of the last remaining 1030s Q stock cars.

    A vintage tube train covered in graffiti
  5. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Events

    Poets and cabbies: On the Cotton

    , 3 minute read

    Poet Dan Simpson introduces the On the Cotton project, and explains the creative connections he developed between London's poets and black cab drivers.

    Taxi driver's eyes reflected in their car mirror
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    The future of transport ticketing - What Crossrail can teach us

    , 5 minute read

    Discover how the work of Cubic Transport Systems on the Crossrail project and transport ticketing more widely is changing the future of transportation.

    A hand swiping a card on a ticket reader on a bus
  7. Blog category
    •  Volunteers

    A day in the life of a Welcome Host volunteer - Depot edition

    , 3 minute read

    Welcome Host volunteer Thomas James shares his experience working at our September Depot Open Days

    Two people smiling while posing in the museum depot
  8. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Underground’s Unlikeliest ‘Ghost’

    , 3 minute read

    Museum Volunteer and Doctor of transport history Rudi Newman reveals the story of one of the few confirmed ‘hauntings’ on the Underground

    A locomotive emerging from a tunnel