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  1. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Next stop…2024!

    19 December 2023, 5 minute read

    As 2023 draws to a close, Museum CEO, Elizabeth McKay takes us on a tour of her highlights of the year.

    Elizabeth stands at the back of a vintage Routemaster bus in London Transport Museum.
  2. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Please Mind the Ghosts - Discover a new AR app at our Friday Late

    10 March 2022, 3 minute read

    Patricia Lalla, Owner of Wolfskill Ltd and contributor at our Friday Late - Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, talks about the personal and historic background of her Augmented Reality prototype app, Please Mind The Ghosts™, bringing to life characters of different eras and ethnicities, all connected to the Windrush story.

    A display of Caribbean flags
  3. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Director's Blog - Top things to look forward to in 2022

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 26 January 2022, 2 minute read

    Museum Director Sam Mullins shares highlights of our programme for 2022, from a new exhibition and the return of our Friday Lates, to Hidden London in-person tours and the new seasons of Secrets of the London Underground and Hidden London Hangouts

    View of the museum's ground floor with people walking around tube trains and buses
  4. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Walking and Writing London

    11 June 2021, 2 minute read

    In this past year of closures, one thing that we've all been doing more of is walking around our local neighbourhoods. At our Museum After Dark event on 17 June 2021, journalist and writer Erica Buist will be collecting your thoughts and experiences to create a collective piece of writing. Find out more in this blog.

    Poster of three people walking up a hill
  5. Blog category
    •  Corporate Membership

    Celebrating 30 years of our Corporate Membership programme

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 29 April 2021, 2 minute read

    Thanks to our Corporate Membership programme, over the past 30 years we have established relationships with the extended transport industry, and the support of our corporate members has enabled our journey to becoming the world’s leading museum of urban transport. Find out more about the programme in this blog by Museum Director Sam Mullins.

    A man in a suit speaks from a podium to a crowd of people with Tube trains and buses in the background
  6. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog
    •  Welcome Aboard

    Director's Blog - Welcome aboard (again)!

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 19 April 2021, 2 minute read

    Our Director Sam Mullins reveals what's in store at the Museum when we reopen on 17 May 2021.

    Families in the Museum
  7. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    2020 - The year that was

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 6 January 2021, 2 minute read

    Our Director, Sam Mullins, looks back on the challenges and achievements of 2020, with a hopeful view for the future of the Museum in 2021.

    view of two red double decker buses with people passing by
  8. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    A lifeline for the Museum from the Culture Recovery Fund

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 29 October 2020, 2 minute read

    We have received a £1.75 million lifeline as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Find out what this means for the future of the Museum in this Director's Blog.

    View of two red double decker buses and visitors walking around them