Blog posts
We are working hard to ensure that the Museum is safe for visitors and staff when we reopen in September. Find out more about the measures we are putting in place.
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How can we use design to support the new ‘normal’?
By Sau-Fun Mo, , 3 minute readOur Head of Design looks at how new signage and wayfinding systems are going to become an essential part of everyone’s journey, be it for business, school, leisure or essential, after months of lockdown.
Our Museum Director returns to Covent Garden with a few colleagues to check on the sleeping London Transport Museum
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Inspiring curiosity at London Transport Museum
By Fenella Goodhart, , 2 minute readFind out how we have been keeping the Museum alive in your hearts, minds and across your digital devices during lockdown.
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Changing times in the world of museum retail
By Laura Mullins, , 2 minute readThe Museum's Retail team is looking at how best to promote a socially distanced and pleasant shopping environment for when we reopen our doors in Covent Garden.
While the Museum remains closed, the team are not standing still. We've been cleaning and preparing every part of the Museum to get ready to welcome visitors again soon.
We are launching a new blog series, Welcome Aboard, to keep you updated on how the Museum team are doing during lockdown. In the first instalment, our Director Sam Mullins visits the sleeping Museum for the first time in two months.
London Transport has a long tradition of commissioning established and emerging artists to design advertising posters for the transport network. London Transport Museum’s collection holds around 15,000 between posters, prints and original artworks. As part of our Poster Power online celebrations from 25 April to 3 May 2020, we have asked Nick Gill, London Transport Museum Friend and volunteer guide for 17 years, to tell us about his favourite poster in the Museum’s collection.