London Transport Museum

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7BB
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

24 hour information line

020 7565 7299

Administration

020 7379 6344

Booking office

020 7575 7298

Fax

020 7565 7254

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Lively new galleries tell the stroy of London's transport system and how it shaped the lives of people living and working in London. The Design for travel gallery showcases original artworks and advertisng posters. The Museum also features vehicles from the past, present and future including the iconic Routemaster bus and the world's first Underground steam train.

The entire collection of this museum is a Designated Collection of national importance.

Venue Type:

Museum

Opening hours

Sat-Thurs 10:00-18:00 (last admission 17:15)
Fri 11:00-18:00 (last admission 17:15)
Check website for Friday Lates programme

Admission charges

Adults: £10.00
Senior Citizens: £8.00
Students: £6.00
Under 16's: free

Discounts

  • Museums Association
General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Picnic area
  • Shop
Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
  • Children's play area
  • Indoor soft play area
Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in lecture theatres
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library with public access
  • Mail order service available
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7BB
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

24 hour information line

020 7565 7299

Administration

020 7379 6344

Booking office

020 7575 7298

Fax

020 7565 7254

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

This museum's wide-ranging collections, including vehicles, posters, uniforms, photographs, film, architectural fragments, engineering drawings and oral testimonies are all Designated Collections of national importance. The wealth of material is used to great effect to chart the development of the first public transport system in a major city.

Of special significance amongst the vehicle collection is a locomotive and carriage from the City and South London Railway of 1890, the first underground electric railway in the world. The reserve collections are now accessible to the public at the Depot, the Museum's open-access store, whilst more information about the collections continues to be made available through the Museum's website and electronic databases.

Collection details

Social History, Science and Technology, Land Transport, Decorative and Applied Art, Archives

Key artists and exhibits

  • Designated Collection

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7BB
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

24 hour information line

020 7565 7299

Administration

020 7379 6344

Booking office

020 7575 7298

Fax

020 7565 7254

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Suburbia

15 October 2009 — 31 March 2010 *on now

Love them or hate them, Britain's suburbs have a unique story to tell. Suburbia takes a peek over the privet hedge and celebrates our suburban lifestyle.
Mixing fun, fact and a little bit of fantasy, the exhibition explores how public transport helped create the myths and identity of suburbia. Looking at transport, architecture, gardens and the lure of a healthy lifestyle through unique displays. The exhibition features original posters, publicity materials and previously unseen items from the Museum's collection.
A talks programme, lively debate and Friday lates compliment the exhibition, for more details check out ltmuseum.co.uk

Suitable for

  • Family friendly
  • All ages

When

10am-6pm

Where

London Transport Museum

Admission

Admission to Suburbia is included in the entry ticket to the Museum
Adult £10.00*
Seniors £8.00*
Students £6.00*
Under 16s Free
*includes voluntary Gift Aid donation

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7BB
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

24 hour information line

020 7565 7299

Administration

020 7379 6344

Booking office

020 7575 7298

Fax

020 7565 7254

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.

100 Years of Night-Life London

14 May 2010

Celebrate 100 years of night-life in London with an exclusive and fun English wine and beer tasting session, and special curator-led tours of a display of stunning posters illustrating London after dark over the last century on Friday 14 May at London Transport Museum.
The secrets of wine and beer tasting will be demystified as visitors learn about the techniques of tasting and the characteristics and history behind the beers and wines. Beers include traditional classics of 18th and 19th century London. Guests can also explore the museums iconic collection of London nightlife posters over the last 100 years.

Suitable for

  • Not suitable for children

When

6:45-10pm

Where

London Transport Museum, Covent Garden

Admission

Booking details and more information coming soon to the website: http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whatson/default.aspx
Any questions please call: +44 (0)20 7565 7298

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7BB
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

24 hour information line

020 7565 7299

Administration

020 7379 6344

Booking office

020 7575 7298

Fax

020 7565 7254

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
Digital and online resources

Literacy Loan Box

This box includes a selection of artefacts, large print texts, a large tube map, resources and teachers notes to support shared literacy activities in the Museum.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum

How to obtain

Has to booked in advance and is for use during a visit to the Museum. Contact School Visits service: 020 7565 7298.

Literacy Resource Pack KS1 & 2

This pack includes teachers' notes activities and writing frames for literacy sessions in the Museum. The pack provides resources for poetry and creative writing, information text, dialogue, recount and persuasive texts. It includes many practical suggestions for planning and extending a transport literacy hour back in the classroom.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum

How to obtain

Resource Desk
Mail order: 020 7565 7298
£4.99 + postage

Numeracy Resource Pack KS1 & 2

This pack includes teachers' notes and activities to support both numeracy work in the Museum and a transport numeracy hour back in the classroom. The pack includes suggestions for work on: numbers and the number sysytem: calculations: measure, shape and space; and data handling. It can be used to support an independent visit to the Museum and an ideal resource to accompany the 'Numbers up' actor-led session.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum

How to obtain

Museum Resource Desk
Mail Order: 020 7565 7298
£4.99 + postage

Our Transport Your Transport

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/otyt/index.htm

On-line exhibition created with four local primary schools as an after school study support project, funded by DfEE. Children investigated transport in London 1829-1999. The children worked with digital cameras, museum objects and tape recorders to build on the Key Stage 2 History curriculum.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum

Science pack (KS 1 - 3)

This resource pack enables children to use an investigative approach towards science and transport.The pack includes Museum activity sheets, information for teaches and stimulating ideas for experiments in the classroom. The resources can be used to support an independent visit to the Museum and in conjunction with 'Bright sparks' actor led-session.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum

How to obtain

Mail order from Museum Resource Desk 0207 565 7298
£4.99 + postage

Victorian London pack KS2

This pack enables cross-curicular work and includes background information and activity sheets for use in the Museum, as well as photographs and other primary sources for classroom work. The pack can be used to support both an independent visit to the Museum and the 'Victorians on the move' actor-led sessions.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London'sTransport Museum

How to obtain

Museum Resource Desk
Mail order: 020 7565 7298.
£4.99 + postage

Paper-based and downloads

Fast forward pack (KS4 & A level)

The future of public transport is a key issue for Londoners.
This resource pack complements the Museum's Fast forward exhibition and explores different modes of urban transport, their feasibility in London and popularity with the public

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum

How to obtain

By mail order from Museum Resource Desk 0207 5657298
£4.99 + postage.

Nursery & KS1 pack

This cross curicular pack includes background information aand activity sheets for use in the Museum, as well as arange of photographs, maps and other resources for classroom use. the pack can be used to support an independant visit to the Museum and in conjuction with the 'Platform Promenade' and 'Time Bus' actor-led sessions.

Creator

  • London's Transport Museum

Publisher

  • London's Transport Museum
digital and online resources

Future Generator

http://future.ltmcollection.org

This online interactive offers a series of choices about how we may live and work in the future. At the end, possible scenarios run to demonstrate how choices we make now about recreation, housing and transport may affect the country in the future. There are also links to the reports and research into the science behind these calculations.

face to face resources

Study Day: The Development of London (KS3 & 4)

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/learning/169.aspx

This study day combines a workshop and self-led gallery visit: subject to staffing constraints, it may also be possible for students to interview a gallery character.
Students investigate three areas which have become part of London since 1800, using a range of sources including posters, pictures and maps to decide when and how they became part of the city. They will investigate the Museum galleries to help develop their understanding of the complex processes and issues involved in urban development, including the role of transport and other connections between and within places.

How to obtain

This session lasts 2 hours, including the gallery visit, and runs on Monday and Friday. We can take up to two classes of 30 pupils at a time. To make a booking, please contact our Education Officer on 020 7565 7429 or email secondary@ltmuseum.co.uk. A full session description can be downloaded here www.ltmuseum.co.uk/assets/downloads/2008.129_Study_Day_Session_Descriptions.pdf

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7BB
England

logo: Designated as an Outstanding Collection

Website

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

enquiry@ltmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

24 hour information line

020 7565 7299

Administration

020 7379 6344

Booking office

020 7575 7298

Fax

020 7565 7254

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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