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  1. Olga Konopka, Project Delivery Engineer at Crossrail, shares her experience working in engineering and being part of one the biggest transport project of the last years.

    Olga standing in front of a giant Elizabeth line roundel
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    A powerful reminder

    8 March 2022, 2 minute read

    The walls of Clapham South deep-level shelter still bear graffiti left by people who took refuge there during and after the Second World War, from those who had lost their homes in the Capital to people displaced from their homes in Europe. Find out more in this blog.

    Black and white photo of an underground tunnel with stairs going up
  5. Blog category
    •  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
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Every Story Matters - Discover TfL's Pride roundels

    14 February 2022, 2 minute read

    Jenney De Sousa, Brand Manager in TfL's Design team, talks about the Every Story Matters project, and the amazing Pride roundels celebrating London's LGBT+ community across the Underground network.

    A roundel with the word ours and the skyline of London in the rainbow colours
  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    How we co-created the Secret Shelter Challenge game

    2 February 2022, 3 minute read

    In January 2022, together with Musemio, we launched a virtual reality game for children, Secret Shelter Challenge: time-travel deep underground. In this blog, Musemio's CEO Olga Kravchenko tells all about the creative process behind this new exciting educational game.

    A child looking into a virtual reality headset
  8. 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