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  1. 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
  2. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Cultural Yoga: a new dimension to the museum experience

    , 1 minute read

    Cultural Yoga instructor Chi Onuora combines her two passions, museum education and yoga, to help Londoners add another level of awareness to their museum visit. She runs architectural yoga at the Design Museum and Sir John Soane’s Museum, and now she is bringing her unique approach to London Transport Museum.

    a woman does a yoga headstand in the middle of an old Tube car
  3. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Let's Clean the Air

    , 2 minute read

    Professor Frank Kelly of the London Air Quality Network at King’s College London discusses how to tackle London’s air pollution problem, ahead of his debate at our next Late Debate: Environment Matters on 7 June 2018.

    A map of London showing levels of pollution
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Late Debate: Women of the Future

    , 2 minute read

    As part of our Museum Lates programme, volunteer Carrie Long wrote about her journey of discovery of the history of the Suffragette movement, and how we continue to campaign for equality today.

    An illustration of a woman's head and shoulders on an orange background, advertising a Late Debate Event
  5. Blog category
    •  Posters

    The bright young things who put women centre stage

    , 2 minute read

    Find out more about the Zinkeisen sisters and how their portrayal of women in their poster designs could have been deemed 'racy' in the 1930s.

    A poster illustration of a merry-go-round, made up of exotic animals, featuring a woman on a zebra
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    •  Posters

    Happy 80th Birthday Carol Barker

    , 1 minute read

    Join us in wishing Carol Barker a Happy 80th Birthday, and find out more about the artist herself.

    Image of Carol Barker infront of an elephant statue
  7. Blog category
    •  Posters

    The first women poster pioneers

    , 2 minute read

    Find out more about the progressive steps of Frank Pick in commissioning women to produce adverts for the Underground, from the first poster by a woman appearing in 1910 to an increase in female artists to 25% by 1930!

    Poster advert for Kew Gardens by tram, featuring a river surrounded by bare trees
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    •  Collections
    •  Guest blog

    The 1951 Festival of Britain showcase of new London Transport R49 Stock

    , 1 minute read

    Did you know that the Festival of Britain is where the R49 Stock was first showcased? Find out more in this blog celebrating the anniversary of the Festival of Britain which opened on 3 May 1951.

    Black and white side view of the R49 Stock tube train with the new silver Aluminium body