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| Established | 1980 |
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| Location | Covent Garden London, WC2 |
| Coordinates | 51°30′43″N 0°07′18″W / 51.51194°N 0.12167°W |
| Type | Transport museum |
| Visitors | 411,766 (2019)[1] |
| Owner | Transport for London |
| Public transit access | |
| Website | www.ltmuseum.co.uk |
The London Transport Museum (LTM) is a transport museum based in Covent Garden, London. The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating to the heritage of London's transport, as well as conserving and explaining the history of it. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collections of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of transport in the city and in some instances beyond.[2]
The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, and is open to the public every day, excluding over Christmas,[3] having reopened in 2007 after a two-year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton, is the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site of historic artefacts that is open to the public on scheduled visitor days throughout the year.
The museum also runs a programme of guided tours, Hidden London, which takes visitors to part of the London Underground that are typically closed to the public, including disused stations and wartime shelters.[4]
The museum was briefly renamed London's Transport Museum to reflect its coverage of topics beyond London Transport, but it reverted to its previous name in 2007 to coincide with the reopening of the Covent Garden site.
In July 2024, the Museum unveiled new branding in an attempt to reflect its coverage of all of London's transport system, not exclusively buses and trains. The new logo - still of roundel design - incorporates all the colours of TfL's transport modes.[5]
- ^ "ALVA - Association of Leading Visitor Attractions". www.alva.org.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Transit Maps: Historical Map: Green Line Coach Routes, London, 1949". Transit Maps. 26 February 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "Opening times". London Transport Museum. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "Hidden London". London Transport Museum. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "A new era for our Museum". London Transport Museum. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.