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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.

To celebrate our gift range based on sporting posters, now available in our online shop, we've put together a quiz to test your sporting (and poster!) knowledge...

Do you think you know the most iconic posters in our collection? See if you can spot the correct missing item on these 10 artworks?

From the French word for carpet, moquette is a tough woollen fabric, used on transport all over the world. It was introduced to London in the 1920s. How much do you know about the city's most iconic fabric?

To celebrate our 40th birthday, we've put together a quiz to test how much you know about the Museum, our collection and the big facts from our history. How much do you know?

Volunteer Resource Manager Sam Clift report back from our fist family volunteering day at the Museum Depot. The day provided families with an opportunity to visit our Museum Depot on a weekend afternoon, and spend some recreational time together helping to maintain the tracks of our London Transport Mu

An update on our Q Stock restoration project by Project Manager Jullian Urry.