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  1. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Battle Bus

    Battle Bus project 2014-2018

    We take a look back at five years of the Battle Bus project, restoring a vintage bus and a community programme exploring the war

    Four vintage buses on the Covent Garden Piazza
  2. Blog category
    •  Battle Bus

    Forget-me-not

    Discover our new installation and meet the artist behind the forget-me-not display in the Museum, commissioned to remember the thousands of transport workers involved in the First World War

    A display of forget-me-nots inside the museum
  3. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Friday Late: Power, Play and Politics

    , 1 minute read

    In our final Friday Late of the Poster Girls series we're celebrating the essence of the exhibition, with a programme of voices representing a diverse range of talent and female empowerment, through lectures, our makers market, tours and 1980s inspired workshops.

    Photo of multicoloured earrings in the shape of triangles
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    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins

    , 2 minute read

    London Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.

    A model showing workers building the first Underground tunnels
  5. Blog category
    •  Hidden London

    70th Anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush

    By Siddy Holloway,

    In the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, Siddy Holloway gives a first-hand account of welcoming a very special guest back to Clapham South deep-level shelter for the first time in 70 years.

    A black and white photo of black shelters in Clapham South
  6. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum

    , 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
  7. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Cultural Yoga: a new dimension to the museum experience

    , 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
  8. Blog category
    •  Museum Lates

    Let's Clean the Air

    , 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