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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join us in wishing Carol Barker a Happy 80th Birthday, and find out more about the artist herself.
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!
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The 1951 Festival of Britain showcase of new London Transport R49 Stock
, 1 minute readDid 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.