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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
    •  Exhibitions

    For the love of Carnival

    21 October 2022, 4 minute read

    Shari Royer, designer of the carnival headdress on display in our Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce exhibition, reveals the inextricable link between her love for Carnival and her career as a costume designer.

    A person pointing at a feathered headdress on display in a case
  3. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Guest blog

    Leaving a Legacy

    6 May 2022, 2 minute read

    Josh Burrell, Senior Press Officer at TfL, shares insights of his experience as a member of the Advisory Board behind our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce.

    A man standing in front of a screen with words from a poem
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    •  Guest blog
    •  Exhibitions

    Reflections on the making of Sunday's best

    28 February 2022, 2 minute read

    The cast and crew of Sunday's best, one of the films commissioned for our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, reflect on the experience of making the film.

    Close up of a man filming a scene with a hand held camera
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    •  Exhibitions

    How we made our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce

    By Laura Sleath, 28 January 2022, 2 minute read

    Find out how we developed our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, working closely with an Advisory Board made up of people of Caribbean heritage, in this blog by Senior Curator Laura Sleath.

    A Black man sits across from another Black man and a White men interviewing him for a job
  6. 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
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    •  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
  8. 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