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  1. 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
  2. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: Do you know our sporting posters?

    To celebrate our gift range based on sporting posters, now available in our online shop, we've put together a quiz to test your sporting (and poster!) knowledge...

    Wimbledon poster
  3. Do you think you know the most iconic posters in our collection? See if you can spot the correct missing item on these 10 artworks?

    A tube of acrylic paint depicting the Underground network
  4. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: Are you a moquette master?

    From the French word for carpet, moquette is a tough woollen fabric, used on transport all over the world. It was introduced to London in the 1920s. How much do you know about the city's most iconic fabric?

    Brown, yellow and orange patterned moquette fabric
  5. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How well do you know London Transport Museum?

    To celebrate our 40th birthday, we've put together a quiz to test how much you know about the Museum, our collection and the big facts from our history. How much do you know?

    The front entrance of the Museum
  6. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Family volunteering at the Museum Depot

    , 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
  7. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Museum Depot

    Our Q Stock story: one year on

    , 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
  8. Blog category
    •  Museum Depot

    Celebrating 20 years of the Museum Depot

    , 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