Past Events
Book Signing
Date: Saturday 5 May
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Rebecca Sams will be signing copies of her new title TUBE LONDON, a Capital Transport publication, at the London Transport Museum Shop on Saturday 5th May between 11am and 1pm.
Easter Holiday Family Fun
Date: Monday 2 April to Friday 13 April 2012
Travel back to a time when ladies wore bonnets and men in top hats rode through the City of London in horse drawn vehicles. Discover the story of Victorian London by taking the ‘time machine’ lift up to the 19th Century London gallery to explore the history of the river, steam and what the city was like before buses and the Underground.
Sense and the City: smart, connected and on the move
Date: Various
Love it or hate it, emerging technologies are transforming the way we live, work and play in our cities. London Transport Museum’s special exhibition, Sense and the City: smart, connected and on the move, unravels the digital future and a dynamic events programme poses questions about mobility, society and work in the Capital over the next decade, and compares this with past visions of the future. The exhibition closes on 18 March 2012.
Depot Open Weekend: March 2012
Date: Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 March 2012
Time: 11:00 - 17:00 (last admission 16.00)
Visitors can explore behind the scenes at London Transport Museum Depot, Acton over the weekend of Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March. The London’s transport in miniature open weekend will feature working transport model layouts exhibited by guest professional and amateur modellers. Displayed in various sizes and scales, and in the finest details, they cover all modes of London travel from Underground trains to trams.
Depot Open Weekend: October 2011
Date: Saturday 8 - Sunday 9 October 2011
Time: 11.00 - 17.00 (last admission 16.00)
Visitors can explore behind the scenes at London Transport Museum Depot, Acton over the weekend. As the custodian of the world’s most comprehensive and important record of urban transport, the Museum stores over 370,000 objects under one roof and the collection comprises of road and rail vehicles, engineering drawings, signs and ephemera. Highlights of the weekend include guided tours of the small object store, exciting demonstrations by Transport for London’s Emergency Response Unit and an opportunity to meet the experts of the Museum curators’ Top 10 engineering objects.
