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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard
    •  Director's Blog

    Welcome back to London Transport Museum

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 4 September 2020, 2 minute read

    We are ready and excited to welcome back our visitors at last on 7 September 2020. Our Director reveals what to expect from your next visit of the Museum, as well as giving you tips on the best routes to enjoy spectacular London views on your way to Covent Garden.

    The front entrance of the Museum
  2. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners

    By Ellie Miles, 31 March 2020, 2 minute read

    Contemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.

    A collage of photographs laid out on a table
  3. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Shaping London since 1980

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 9 March 2020, 2 minute read

    London Transport Museum has stood proudly in the Covent Garden Piazza since it was open on 28 March 1980. Over the past four decades Covent Garden has been transformed into a vibrant quarter of London, with the Museum contributing to the distinct personality of the area.

    A drawing depicting a Victorian building with arches and large buildings and a sign reading London Transport Museum
  4. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Exploring the past and shaping the future

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 17 December 2019, 3 minute read

    Our Director reveals what we have in store for our visitors in 2020.

    Entrance of London Transport Museum
  5. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog
    •  Hidden London

    Uncovering Hidden London

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 26 September 2019, 3 minute read

    In this blog, our Director talks all things Hidden London, from the new immersive exhibition at the Museum and a brand new illustrated book, to the popular Hidden London tours of disused stations across the transport network.

    A section of the Hidden London exhibition showing a disused ticket window and desk
  6. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    #MyJourneyToPride - Here's what happened!

    By Ellie Miles, 22 August 2019, 3 minute read

    We partnered up with museum freelancer Sacha Coward and invited people to use the #MyJourneyToPride hashtag to document and share their stories of travelling to Pride in London and UK Black Pride 2019. We also asked some people to record video diaries of their journeys in order to create a picture of the lived experience of a group of people from the LGBT+ community in London in 2019. Find out what happened.

    Poster depicting 6 double decker buses in the colours of the LGBT rainbow flag
  7. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Contemporary Curators

    #MyJourneyToPride – Collecting LGBT+ experiences

    By Ellie Miles, 17 June 2019

    Documentary Curator Ellie Miles introduces our new My Journey to Pride project - asking you to document your journey to 2019 pride parades

    A station with rainbow-coloured seats and a trans flag themed roundel
  8. Blog category
    •  Contemporary Curators

    Social Stations – A contemporary collecting project

    13 June 2019, 2 minute read

    Susanna Cordner explores our Social Stations projects, celebrating how community and grassroots projects are reclaiming spaces at stations for public and/or environmental benefit

    Vegetables and sunflowers growing at a station