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 erected in 1872 that was formerly part of the Covent Garden Wholesale Flower Market . Are shown u. a. numerous vehicles such as buses , trolley buses , trams and underground - trains . There is also a shop that sells , besides souvenirs and bus models , books, posters and postcards with motifs from over a hundred years of traffic history (including many artistic posters ). The museum also exercised the copyrights of the famous subway network map.
Not all exhibits can be shown in Covent Garden, they are kept in a former underground depot preserved for this purpose near Acton Town underground station . This depot is only open on a few weekends and can be visited outside of this time on certain days in a guided tour.
History of the museum
The collection of the LTM was established in 1920 as one of the major London transport companies , the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC), two horses buses from Victorian preserved and early motor bus. Historic vehicles of the successor company London Transport , which in 1933 brought together all types of public transport in London (except for the railways and shipping on the Thames ), were kept as part of the Museum of British Transport in the old bus garage at Clapham High Street in South London. In 1973 the collection moved to Syon Park as the London Transport Collection .
The London Transport Museum at its current location in Covent Garden was opened in 1980 and made large parts of the collection permanently accessible to the general public for the first time. It was limited to the history of London Transport , the company that was then responsible for the operation of the London Underground , the bus routes and also for the earlier trams and trolleybuses , as well as its predecessor and successor companies.
In 2000, the museum became the responsibility of Transport for London . At the same time, there was a change of name to London's Transport Museum , as one wanted to deal with all aspects of transport in London in the future and not just that of the London Transport company . In 2007, however, the old name was reverted to.
The museum reopened on November 22nd, 2007, the exhibition rooms were enlarged and the museum's educational area was further improved. The new exhibits include a. the locomotive and car of the City and South London Railway (the world's first underground railway); and a Wright Eclipse Gemini - one of the modern types of double-decker buses in London. The accessories have also been partially redesigned, for example the 1938 subway car is on a stylized platform and the buses are on a street with a traffic light .
Exhibitions
- 2013: Poster Art 150 , a poster exhibition covering 150 years of advertising in London's transport industry.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andy Itatt: Celebrating London's transport heritage . In: Coach & Bus Week , issue 1130 of March 26, 2014, pp. 62–68, ISSN 1351-3877 , (English)
- ^ The world of signs of the underground in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from March 17, 2013, page V13
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 43 " N , 0 ° 7 ′ 18" W.