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    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    Does transport shape our experiences?

    28 February 2019

    In this blog Andy De Santis – Vice Chair of OUTbound , TfL’s LGBT+ Staff Network – shares with us how London transport has shaped his relationships and experiences.

    Andy de Santis standing in front of a large Underground roundel
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    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Collections

    Where are all the women?

    By Ellie Miles, 5 February 2019, 3 minute read

    Ellie Miles takes a look at some of the stories that were submitted as part of the Where are all the Women project

    Female Lathe Operators at Acton Works 1942
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    •  Contemporary Curators

    LGBT+ Linking Lives collecting project

    1 February 2019, 1 minute read

    Susanna Cordner reveals what attracted her to to her role as a Documentary Curator at London Transport Museum, and introduces her latest collecting project, LGBT+ Linking Lives.

    A bus, taxi and train with rainbow banners on for the Ride with Pride campaign
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    •  Contemporary Curators

    New LGBT+ collecting

    By Ellie Miles, 12 November 2018

    Ellie Miles introduces some of the new objects in our collection as part of our LGBT+ collecting project

    Trans pride flag above 55 Broadway, 12 November 2018, photo © Andy De Santis
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    •  Contemporary Curators
    •  Museum Lates

    Reclaim the Station

    12 November 2018, 1 minute read

    Our Documentary Curator Susanna Cordner invites to our next Late Debate focusing on the innovative solution to reclaim spaces across the Capital.

    Colour drawing of a crowd on a tube train
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    What is contemporary collecting?

    By Ellie Miles, 12 September 2018

    Our Documentary Curators bring more contemporary material to the Museum to enrich its historic collections. Documenting transport at the Museum means working with all kinds of material, including photographs, objects, stories, artworks, sound works and oral histories.

    A collage of photos laid on a table