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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Preparation! Preparation! Preparation!

    By Geoff Rowe, , 2 minute read

    While the Museum remains closed, the team are not standing still. We've been cleaning and preparing every part of the Museum to get ready to welcome visitors again soon.

    A wide shot of London Transport Museum with two red double decker buses in the foreground and historic buses in the background
  2. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    A visit to Covent Garden

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, , 2 minute read

    We are launching a new blog series, Welcome Aboard, to keep you updated on how the Museum team are doing during lockdown. In the first instalment, our Director Sam Mullins visits the sleeping Museum for the first time in two months.

    View of London Transport Museum entrance on Covent Garden Piazza
  3. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Collections

    The golden age of urban attractions

    , 5 minute read

    Zorian Clayton, Assistant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum presents a selection of posters from London Transport Museum's and V&A's poster collections showcasing a golden age of illustrative graphic design in the UK.

    Graphic depicting half the face of a woman and half the black silhouette of a head
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    London Transport Museum's Ruby Anniversary

    , 3 minute read

    A brief look at the origins of London Transport Museum and its collection, on the occasion of its Ruby anniversary, with first-hand memories of Mike Walton, who was working in the Museum shop when it first opened in Covent Garden on 28 March 1980.

    Poster depicting a red bus and tube train, a steam train and the facade of a victorian building with a sign reading London Transport Museum
  5. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Museum Late: Night on the tiles

    , 2 minute read

    Our Museum Late: Night on the tiles is all about the history of London’s rich nightlife from Victorian music halls and night clubs, to subcultures which have influenced London and the world. The Museum of Youth Culture will also be joining us to talk about their latest collecting project, Grown Up In Britain.

    Poster depicting people dancing on a dance floor with a dj in the background
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Farewell, Baker Street - TfL's Lost Properties Office is on the move

    , 2 minute read

    After 86 years, Transport for London's Lost Property Office is moving from its historic location at 200 Baker Street. What better time to explore the building's nooks and crannies, filled with lost treasures from the mundane to the bizarre, before they are moved to new premises.

  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Posters

    Prize for Illustration Notes from a winner - By Julia Allum

    A note from Julia on the process behind winning the Silver award for her poster design, and what she has been up to since.

    A photo of Julia holding her winning poster, with the three parakeets adorned on roundels
  8. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme

    Young People’s Skills Programme

    Young Freelancer Aksana Khan talks about her first big project which involved supporting the Young People’s Skills Programme.

    A group of young people sitting at the back of a bus in the Museum