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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Inspiring curiosity at London Transport Museum

    By Fenella Goodhart, 12 June 2020, 2 minute read

    Find out how we have been keeping the Museum alive in your hearts, minds and across your digital devices during lockdown.

    A teacher inspiring children
  2. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Changing times in the world of museum retail

    By Laura Mullins, 3 June 2020, 2 minute read

    The Museum's Retail team is looking at how best to promote a socially distanced and pleasant shopping environment for when we reopen our doors in Covent Garden.

    A display of london transport themed children gifts in all the colour of the rainbow
  3. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Preparation! Preparation! Preparation!

    By Geoff Rowe, 28 May 2020, 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
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    •  Welcome Aboard

    A visit to Covent Garden

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 20 May 2020, 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
  5. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Family volunteering at the Museum Depot

    2 December 2019, 3 minute read

    Volunteer Resource Manager Sam Clift report back from our fist family volunteering day at the Museum Depot. The day provided families with an opportunity to visit our Museum Depot on a weekend afternoon, and spend some recreational time together helping to maintain the tracks of our London Transport Mu

    A men and two children walking by a red tube train
  6. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Museum Depot

    Our Q Stock story: one year on

    11 November 2019, 3 minute read

    An update on our Q Stock restoration project by Project Manager Jullian Urry.

    Volunteers working on the inside of a train car
  7. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Celebrating 20 years of the Museum Depot

    11 October 2019, 3 minute read

    Our Museum Depot celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Find out all about this marvellous transport treasure trove in Acton Town.

    View of three historic trains, one yellow, one red and one white and green
  8. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot
    •  Families

    Love Your Line - Museum Depot Open Weekend

    15 April 2019, 3 minute read

    Celebrating the Victoria Line's 50th, Jubilee Line's 40th and District Lines 150th anniversaries at the Acton Depot Open Weekend. Find out more about the Tube lines you Love!

    illustrated advert for Love Your Line, with a mimic of the Tube map in the shape of hearts along the lines