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  1. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)

    4 July 2018, 1 minute read

    David Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.

    detail of a poster showing a girl and boy surrounded by toys
  2. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum

    5 June 2018, 2 minute read

    Explore London Transport Museum from Skanska engineer Emma's perspective. As she explores the Museum, you can find out how much engineering has changed since the Victorian era and explore ways to make London cleaner and greener.

    A side profile photo of a woman reading something on a wall
  3. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Cultural Yoga: a new dimension to the museum experience

    29 May 2018, 1 minute read

    Cultural Yoga instructor Chi Onuora combines her two passions, museum education and yoga, to help Londoners add another level of awareness to their museum visit. She runs architectural yoga at the Design Museum and Sir John Soane’s Museum, and now she is bringing her unique approach to London Transport Museum.

    a woman does a yoga headstand in the middle of an old Tube car
  4. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Let's Clean the Air

    24 May 2018, 2 minute read

    Professor Frank Kelly of the London Air Quality Network at King’s College London discusses how to tackle London’s air pollution problem, ahead of his debate at our next Late Debate: Environment Matters on 7 June 2018.

    A map of London showing levels of pollution
  5. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Exhibitions

    C&RE - A modern couple who brought a new aesthetic to 1930s poster art

    19 April 2018, 2 minute read

    Find out about Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, the husband and wife designer duo who shared artistic and marital equality.

    A green, brown, black and red poster illustration of a woman, along with the words "come out to play"
  6. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Late Debate: Women of the Future

    22 March 2018, 2 minute read

    As part of our Museum Lates programme, volunteer Carrie Long wrote about her journey of discovery of the history of the Suffragette movement, and how we continue to campaign for equality today.

    An illustration of a woman's head and shoulders on an orange background, advertising a Late Debate Event
  7. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Exhibitions

    Digging Deeper - A New Discovery

    By Simon Murphy, 26 September 2017, 2 minute read

    Discover why a small item in our collection became more than just a model to display in our new Digging Deeper gallery, but an important piece of tunnelling history.

    An angled view of the shield six screw ram, from above. gold and brown, on a Gray concrete background
  8. Blog category
    •  Collections

    An original London Pirate: 1924 LB5 Chocolate Express

    10 September 2017, 2 minute read

    Did you know that we have a 'pirate' bus in our collection? Find out more about the Chocolate Express bus on display at the Museum Depot, and why it is known as a pirate bus from the 1920s.

    two girls look at a brown bus with yellow writing