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  1. Blog category
    •  Learning Programmes
    •  Guest blog

    Co-creating ‘Bus for the Future’ with London Transport Museum

    8 March 2021, 2 minute read

    To celebrate British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), we have developed a workshop for Key Stage 2 students to inspire the future generation of engineers and to start thinking about ways to create a sustainable future. In this blog, teachers from Mayfield Primary School share their experience working with us to create the workshop.

    Poster showing a red bus flying in the sky with the writing The Bus of the Future above it
  2. Blog category
    •  Learning Programmes

    Full STEAM ahead for British Science Week

    By Hannah Cushion, 1 March 2021, 2 minute read

    See what our Learning team has in store for KS2 and KS3 students, to celebrate British Science Week 2021 on the theme 'Innovating for the Future'.

    Three young female students in school uniforms walk between a green and white train and a red tube train
  3. Blog category
    •  Hidden London

    Aldwych - The end of the line

    By Dave Olney, 12 February 2021, 2 minute read

    As we launch a new virtual tour of Aldwych station, Dave Olney, lead Hidden London guide, gives you a taste of the station's history, from its opening in 1907 to its permanent closure in 1994, plus reveals the previously hidden parts of the station now accessible with our virtual tours.

    Aldwych station platform, 1958
  4. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme
    •  Learning Programmes

    Young People's Blog Series - 5 things I wish I’d known before joining the Young Freelancers programme

    27 November 2020, 2 minute read

    In the last instalment of our Young People's Blog Series, young freelancer Veronica Sarmiento shares useful tips she's learned during her time at London Transport Museum.

    Six young people standing in front of the Hidden London exhibition entrance
  5. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme
    •  Learning Programmes

    Young People's Blog Series - How to get the best out of being an apprentice

    9 November 2020, 2 minute read

    We're launching a new series of blogs written by some of the young freelancers and apprentices in our Young People's Skills Programme. In the first installment, Bayley gives useful tips and advice to young people to make the most of an apprenticeship.

    A young Black man with short hair wearing a dark green jumper with a yellow and black locomotive in the background
  6. Blog category
    •  Hidden London

    New discoveries at Clapham South's deep level shelter

    By Siddy Holloway, 19 February 2020, 3 minute read

    Did you know that the deep-level shelter at Clapham South was also used as an archive? The recent removal of some of the archive shelving by our Hidden London team revealed something unexpected. Siddy Holloway tells you more about the findings in this blog.

    Black and white photo of an underground tunnel with stairs going up
  7. Blog category
    •  Learning Programmes

    Exploring London's signs and symbols

    11 February 2020, 3 minute read

    We’ve got something very special planned for February Half Term 2020: we are sending you and your family on a mission to explore our galleries and discover the signs and symbols that make London’s transport system the most recognisable in the world. Find out more!

    Poster with green background and drawings of station signs, a red bus and a tube train
  8. 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