London Transport Museum
London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
Greater London
WC2E 7BB
England
Website
Telephone
24 hour information line
020 7565 7299
Administration
020 7379 6344
Booking office
020 7575 7298
Fax
020 7565 7254
Lively new galleries tell the story 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 advertising 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
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
The Serco Prize for Illustration 2014 – London Stories
- 14 February — 6 April 2014 *on now
Across the ages, London has produced and inspired countless stories. Fictitious and real characters and events in this amazing city have always held fascination, from anecdotal urban myths to grand tales of historic legend.
London Stories, an exhibition featuring the best of the entries for The Serco Prize for Illustration 2014, opens on 14 February 2014 and will feature 50 works of art.
Entrants were asked to create an illustration which visually captures a well-known or obscure London narrative; stories that are contemporary or historical, real or imagined.
The shortlisted illustrations celebrate a vibrant, multi-layered London – urban myths, historic events, remarkable characters and London’s animal population. From ghost buses, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show of 1887 and Lenin’s ‘love letter to London’ to a Pearly King and Queen, and an escaped Monkey jazz band. Other entries depict the ravens and the white bear of the Tower of London, Tin Pan Alley as well as literary and musical references such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Girl from Petrovka, Mary Poppins, Sweeney Todd and Oranges and Lemons. For the first time the exhibition will feature five short animated films. From the rise and fall of high rise tower blocks, LDN Flying machine to the animated video about “Our Town”.
Suitable for
- Any age
Admission
Free with admission.
Website
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions
Friday Late: Goodbye Piccadilly
- 16 May 2014 6:45-10pm
Experience London life in 1914 at the opening of our new exhibition “Goodbye Piccadilly – from home front to Western front” and discover the role London buses and bus drivers played in the First World War.
Find out which scents the smart set favoured at our perfumery workshop with Odette Toilette, learn how London prepared for war with Professor Jerry White, create your own fashionable feathered fascinator with Spitalfield favourite Lulu O’Neil of Slightly Scarlett, and much much more at London Transport Museum’s Friday late for Museums at Night.
Suitable for
- 18+
- Not suitable for children
Admission
Adults £10.00, Concessions (OAP, student and unemployed) £8.00.
Website
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events/friday-lates#piccadilly
Build a Bus
In this session students will become real engineers. By using gallery investigation and helping to build our magnetic bus, children will learn the different parts that make up a bus and the shapes that can be discovered from within.
Session length: 60 minutes
Group size: 30 pupils maximum
Designed for foundation and key stage 1 students
Creator
- Stephen Moorhouse
Publisher
- Stephen Moorhouse
How to obtain
Entry to the Museum is free for UK educational groups. Our learning sessions cost just £1.50 per pupil per session. Speak to our bookings team, 020 7565 7298 or e-mail bookings@ltmuseum.co.uk, to arrange a visit tailored to your needs.
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.
Is this the Way Home?
In this session students join our actor on the hunt for our mischievous mole, Montague Pinner. Montague has managed to get himself lost after a day out in London. By following the trail of clues your students help to find Montague and get him home safely!
Session length: 40 minutes
Group size: 15 pupils maximum
Session designed for foundation and key stage 1 students
Creator
- Stephen Moorhouse
Publisher
- Stephen Moorhouse
How to obtain
Entry to the Museum is free for UK educational groups. Our learning sessions cost just £1.50 per pupil per session. Speak to our bookings team, 020 7565 7298 or e-mail bookings@ltmuseum.co.uk, to arrange a visit tailored to your needs.
Next Stop… London!
In this story telling pupils get to climb aboard London Transport Museum’s story train on a journey around the sites and sounds of London. This session includes station stops at a Wembley Stadium football match, the monkey enclosure at London Zoo and the River Thames! Session length: 35 minutes, Group size: 30 pupils maximum
Session designed for foundation and key stage one.
Creator
- Stephen Moorhouse
Publisher
- Stephen Moorhouse
How to obtain
Entry to the Museum is free for UK educational groups. Our learning sessions cost just £1.50 per pupil per session. Speak to our bookings team, 020 7565 7298 or e-mail bookings@ltmuseum.co.uk, to arrange a visit tailored to your needs.
Platform Promenade
In this lively actor led schools session, students embark on an investigative journey through the Museum to discover differences between types of vehicles and how people travelled in the past. Group size:15 pupils; Duration 35 minutes; designed for foundation and Key stage 1 students.
Creator
- Stephen Moorhouse
Publisher
- Stephen Moorhouse
How to obtain
To book call or e-mail the Museum bookings team on 020 7565 7298, or bookings@ltmuseum.co.uk. Sessions cost £1.50 per student. Accompanying adults free.
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