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Our Documentary Curators bring more contemporary material to the Museum to enrich its historic collections. Documenting transport at the Museum means working with all kinds of material, including photographs, objects, stories, artworks, sound works and oral histories.
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Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins
, 2 minute readLondon Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.
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Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)
, 1 minute readDavid Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.
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.
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.
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.
David Bownes, Co-Curator of our exhibition Poster Girls, talks about the 'Travel Queen', 1960s designer Dorrit Dekk.
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C&RE - A modern couple who brought a new aesthetic to 1930s poster art
, 2 minute readFind out about Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, the husband and wife designer duo who shared artistic and marital equality.