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  1. Blog category
    •  Welcome Aboard

    A visit to Covent Garden

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 20 May 2020, 2 minute read

    We are launching a new blog series, Welcome Aboard, to keep you updated on how the Museum team are doing during lockdown. In the first instalment, our Director Sam Mullins visits the sleeping Museum for the first time in two months.

    View of London Transport Museum entrance on Covent Garden Piazza
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Picking up speed in 2019

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 15 January 2019

    Our Director, Sam Mullins, takes a look at what's coming up in 2019

    Sam Mullins OBE standing on the back of Battle Bus
  6. Blog category
    •  Director's Blog

    Bryan Avery - An Appreciation

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 12 July 2017, 2 minute read

    Our Director San Mullins remembers Bryan Avery, the architect who led the design team for the extension and refurbishment of the Museum in November 2007.

    Black and white image of a smiling Bryan Avery
  7. Blog category
    •  Battle Bus

    Battle Bus: Going Back to the Somme

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 6 November 2016, 2 minute read

    Our Museum Director shares updates of a visit to the Somme to plan out the route for our First World War ‘Battle Bus’ (B2737), which will be revisiting for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2017.

    Men in uniform pay respect to a memorial at the Somme
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    •  Battle Bus

    1920: King George V and Ole Bill

    By Sam Mullins, OBE, 9 November 2014, 2 minute read

    Director Sam Mullins takes a look at what life in London was like following the war – the beginnings of Armistice Day, the role of commemoration and the significant contribution made by London’s transport workers.

    Men in uniform parade down the street followed by a motor bus