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In the last instalment of our Young People's Blog Series, young freelancer Veronica Sarmiento shares useful tips she's learned during her time at London Transport Museum.

We're launching a new series of blogs written by some of the young freelancers and apprentices in our Young People's Skills Programme. In the first installment, Bayley gives useful tips and advice to young people to make the most of an apprenticeship.

Did 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.

Do you know your Overground from your Emirates Airline? Think you know what colour the Elizabeth line will be? Test out your Tube map knowledge with our latest quiz!

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?

Contemporary 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.

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?