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Top things to do - introduction

Coming to visit London Transport Museum? Kids and adults alike will enjoy discovering 220 years of London’s transport history as you explore our galleries - from the bright poster displays to interactive exhibits.

Make the most of your visit with our top picks for the best things to do while you’re here!

Top 10 things to do

A child crawling on the floor of the London by Design gallery

Jump on the flying posters

Visit our London by Design gallery on the ground floor and jump on the moving pictures on the floor!

A child and a grandma playing with foam building blocks in a tunnel outline

Build a tunnel ring

See if you can build a tunnel ring from the blocks outside our Digging Deeper gallery on the ground floor.

A map of London

Find where you live

We’ve got a huge map of London in the middle of the Museum. Can you spot where you live?

A mum and child in the All Aboard playzone peering out of a bus

Play in All Aboard

Explore All Aboard, the Museum’s dedicated play zone for families with children aged 0 to 7 years.

Two people playing on a train simulator

Be a future engineer!

Are you an engineer of the future? Try your hand at driving or fixing a modern tube train, scan your palm with the latest ticket technology and plan a happy city in our Future Engineers gallery on the ground floor.

A green and cream coloured horse-drawn bus with mannequins resembling driver, conductor and passengers

See the horses

Listen to their chatter and grumbles. Uh oh… what have they done on the ground? See them on the top floor.

Mannequins in the Museum

Eye spy the mannequins

Can you find all the mannequins in the Museum? See if you can spot them in our old vehicles dressed up in old outfits.

A mum and child 'driving' a fake bus

Drive the half bus

Jump on board to drive our bus—it’s been cut in half! You’ll find it on Level 1 in the All Aboard area.

Moveable wooden blocks with characters of people in uniform who helped London keep moving during wartime

Learn about people and transport during the war

Visit our newly refurbished London’s transport at war gallery to find out how transport helped people during the First and Second World Wars and experience a what sheltering was like.

A girl standing at an interactive exhibit in the Museum

Interactive train challenge

Test your reactions against a train computer in the Smooth Operator game. Can you press the correct buttons along the route as well as open and close the doors quickly enough for all the passengers on board?