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- Posters
Winter Wonderland - Discover our festive Poster Parade
By Georgia Morley, , 1 minute readSenior Curator Georgia Morley shares five of her favourite posters from our new Poster Parade Winter Wonderland celebrating the magic of wintertime in London through the years.
We are excited for you to explore some of the amazing features of our brand new website. We picked 5 of our favourites which we think you'll love!
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- Contemporary Curators
- Collections
A brief history of tran-sports!
By Ellie Miles, , 1 minute readDid you know that London Underground has its own football league? And that London transport sports teams history dates back to the early twentieth century? Contemporary Curator Ellie Miles tells you more in this blog.
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.
Zorian Clayton, Assistant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum presents a selection of posters from London Transport Museum's and V&A's poster collections showcasing a golden age of illustrative graphic design in the UK.
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- Contemporary Curators
Contemporary Collecting: An Ethical Toolkit for Museum Practitioners
By Ellie Miles, , 2 minute readContemporary collecting involves people making decisions about preserving lived experience, knowledge, stories and objects and as such can venture into complicated ethical territory. Ellie Miles, together with other Museum practitioners, has created a toolkit which aims to be a useful resource for people embarking on contemporary collecting.
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- Posters
Celebrating London's tramways past and present
By Georgia Morley, , 1 minute readWe are starting the new year with a celebration of London’s tramways in our new Poster Parade on display at the Museum from 10 January to 26 March 2020. Find out more in this blog by Curator Georgia Morley.
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- Collections
- Q Stock Restoration
- Museum Depot
Our Q Stock story: one year on
, 3 minute readAn update on our Q Stock restoration project by Project Manager Jullian Urry.