London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum is a museum that deals with the history of public transport in London. The main museum is located in the Covent Garden district of central London in a building constructed in 1872 building, which previously was a part of the flower market of Covent Garden. Be shown, inter alia, numerous vehicles, such as buses, trolleybuses, trams and subway trains. Attached is a shop where souvenirs and bus models except mainly books, posters and postcards with motives from over a hundred years history of transport (including many artistic posters) are offered. The copyright of the famous metro - network plan will also perceive the museum.

Not all exhibits can be shown in Covent Garden, they are kept in an obtained for this purpose earlier underground depot near the metro station Acton Town. The depot is open only on weekends and a few can be visited outside of these hours on certain days in a guided tour.

History of the Museum

The current site of the museum in Covent Garden was opened in 1980. It was limited to the history of London Transport, the society, which was responsible for the operation of the London Underground, bus routes and also for the previous trams and trolley buses at that time.

In 2000, the Museum was transferred to the jurisdiction of Transport for London. At the same time changed its name in London 's Transport Museum, as you wanted in the future to deal with all aspects of transport in London, and not only that of the Society London Transport. In 2007 they returned, however, back to the old name.

On 22 November 2007, the museum was reopened, the exhibition rooms have been enlarged, and the museum education field has been further improved. Among the new exhibits are, inter alia, the locomotive and a wagon of the City and South London Railway ( the first subway in the world) and a Wright Eclipse Gemini - one of the double -decker buses of modern types in London. Also, the accessory has been partially remodeled, the 1938er subway car is at a stylized platform and the buses are on a road with a traffic light.

Exhibitions

• 2013: Poster Art 150, a poster exhibition by the 150 years advertising in transport in London.