Wheel-y creative: May half-term activities

There are all kinds of family fun at London Transport Museum this May half-term, with nine days of imagination, fun and curiosity, and activities including a creative workshop and storytelling.  

‘My Visit to London Transport Museum’ activity

Get curious exploring the Museum galleries as you collect facts, draw pictures and complete different tasks on your activity sheets, which you can pick up for free from the ticket desk. You can find the big red Routemaster bus and work out how many passengers can travel on it, discover what shape Underground tunnels are, count the wheels on the historic Omnibus, and more.

Once completed, your kids can create their own origami book at home all about their visit to the Museum as a souvenir to remember their great day out. 

• Throughout the galleries
• All day every day
• Best for children 5 years and older  

Get ‘wheel-y’ creative

Zoom, zoom! Make tracks and get ‘wheel-y’ creative in an artist-led drop-in workshop encouraging playful experimentation. Younger kids can use a range of vehicle toys to experiment with colourful mark making and add to a big communal art piece, while older children can design and create exciting spirograph wheel designs to add to London vehicle templates. 

• Drop in between 10.30 to 16.00 every day
• Best for 3-12 year olds
• In the Transportorium Garden

Storytelling with an Underground Mouse

‘The Curious Adventure of the Underground Mouse’, told five times a day in the Transportorium Garden, is perfect for sparking under-7s’ imagination while they take a moment of calm to sit and listen.

• 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.30 and 15.30 every day
• Story session lasts approximately 20 minutes
• Best for under 7s
• Approximately 10 families maximum, first come first served
• In the Transportorium Garden

What else do families enjoy doing at London Transport Museum?

Visiting the Museum galleries and exploring the Museum’s newest exhibition Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean Workforce. Children can try out a new, fun, flag exhibit that asks them to guess the Caribbean nation belonging to each flag, while small family-friendly printed labels will allow younger ones to ask questions about the experiences of the Caribbean people who made London their home

Seeing historic buses, trams and Tube trains from London’s past

Visiting the Future Engineers gallery and getting hands-on with interactive exhibits. Try out a palm scanner – the latest in ticketing technology, ‘drive’ a modern Elizabeth line train, and see your face on the cover of The Engineer magazine

Seeing a life-size recreation of the tunnelling shield that helped create the world’s first electric Tube railway in the Digging Deeper gallery and learn about the history of tunnelling, from the feats of Victorian engineering pioneer James Greathead, to modern day Crossrail

Exploring the All Aboard family play zone where young visitors can play conductor on a bus, repair a mini Tube train with toy spanners, and work in the ‘Lost Property Office’