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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Changing times in the world of museum retail

    By Laura Mullins, , 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
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    •  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
  8. Blog category
    •  Posters

    Celebrating London's tramways past and present

    By Georgia Morley, , 1 minute read

    We are starting the new year with a celebration of London’s tramways in our new Poster Parade on display at the Museum from 10 January to 26 March 2020. Find out more in this blog by Curator Georgia Morley.

    Poster depicting a trolleybus to Kingston