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London Transport Museum is working with communities across London, exploring how transport affects the lives of everyone. You can find us out and about at local festivals and events, in community centres and running a busy programme of activities and exhibitions at the Museum Depot in Acton.
Museum on the Move
The Museum's Community Team are on the move. We run activities across London. Activities we have recently run include:
Reminiscence sessions with elders' groups
Building motorized toy buses at summer schools
Handling sessions using objects from the Museum collections
Taking a historic bus to Acton carnival and running children's activities.
The Museum aims to respond to the varied needs of all community groups and offer engaging and relevant activities. Whatever the particular interests, abilities and learning needs of your group, we have something to offer you. All our community activities are free of charge. We may even be able to supply some funding to cover any costs you might have.
If you'd like us to visit you, please email us or call +44 (0)20 7565 7431. We'll do our best to arrange an activity that's right foryou.
Community exhibitions and programmes
London Transport Museum is also working with a variety of community groups on longer term projects leading to exhibitions, performances and websites.
Our Stories Magazine
Tales of travelling and working in the capital from the London Irish Centre.
Whether it's exploring by bus or helping to build the Tube, everyone has a story to tell about their experiences of transport in London. In a series of workshops members of the London Irish Centre Elderly Day Centre in Camden have worked with London Transport Museum to create a magazine to share their memories.
Taking objects, artwork and images from London Transport Museum collections as their inspiration, each individual has created a page to tell their own story. The result is a colourful mix of narratives revealing the hidden significance of Museum objects to different people. Stories of family, friendship, success and struggle emerge, highlighting individual experiences but also those that communities share.
What stories do you have to tell?
The magazine is available in the Museum's Learning Lounge and libraries in Camden.
Our Stories is one of London Transport Museum's New Routes projects, a programme of community exhibitions and partnerships. New Routes forms part of the Revisiting Collections initiative that extends across all London Hub museums and is funded by MLA London.
Our Stories (downloadable PDF)
Travels in Textiles
Summer 2008
Ealing Central Library
Admission Free
An exhibition of textile art created by members of South Acton Skills and Arts Collaborative.
Since the early 1900s the seats of London's buses and tube trains have been upholstered in a durable woven wool fabric called moquette. From the floral motifs of the 1920s, to the symmetrical designs we see today, moquette has become a recognisable companion on our journeys around London.
Guided by artist Amarjeet Kaur Nandhra and taking inspiration from London Transport Museum's vast collection of moquette, members of South Acton Skills and Arts Collaborative have produced a series of stunning textiles that reflect their travel experiences. Each piece is hand crafted with intricate designs; a geometric mix of green and yellow, flowers blooming with Metropolitan Line colours, a fleet of hand sewn ships. The pieces can be seen alongside moquette from London Transport Museum's collections.
Travels in Textiles is the first exhibition for London Transport Museum's New Routes project, a programme of community exhibitions and partnerships.
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