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| We're ringing in 2024 with twice the fun at our exclusive Lates. Dive into after-hours exploration, with art, drinks, and creative surprises! We've also got fantastic half-term activities for families to enjoy in February. Read on to discover more about London's taxis and learn about Edward McKnight Kauffer, our first poster artist of the month - a new series celebrating tartists featured in our Global Poster Gallery. |
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 | | Student Late: London Calling | | On Friday 2 February, join us for a student-led evening exploring London's history. Dress up as your favourite Tube station and enjoy a scavenger hunt, test your know-how with engineering challenges, craft a light-up poster and enjoy talks and tours. Tickets from £15. |
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| | | Friday 8 March | | Museum Late: Women on the Move | | Explore women's experiences travelling and working in London at our International Women's Day inspired Late. Get crafty in workshops celebrating women artists featured on the city's transport network, join panel discussions and talks, and enjoy a drink as you explore after hours. | |  |
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| | | | | Saturday 10 - Sunday 18 February | | February half term: Women at Work | | Bring your family to discover London's transport heroines who have kept the capital moving over the last century. Join fun activities inspired by their stories, hop aboard historic buses and Tube trains and learn to 'drive' an Elizabeth line train. Kids go free! | | | |
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| | Treat yourself to a Hidden London experience | |
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| | Plan something to look forward to this year: a unique experience with our combined Hidden London offers.
Discover the secrets of Piccadilly Circus station before lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. Explore the disused Jubilee line platforms of Charing Cross followed by afternoon tea at original railway hotel, The Clermont. Or, after your tour of 'Churchill's secret station' Down Street, enjoy a themed cocktail in rumoured spy hangout Manetta's Bar at Flemings Hotel. | |
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| Road vehicle; Carbodies FX4S Plus taxi, registration E272 MYL, 1988 |
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| | | | This FX4S Plus black cab is on display in the Museum. It was donated to us in 2007 by its former owner, Steve Sutherland, who worked as a London cab driver for over 30 years.
To become a licensed London cab driver, you have to pass ‘the Knowledge’. This test, which involves memorising London streets and destinations, dates back to the nineteenth century.
Click the links below to learn more about this taxi, and how public transport evolved above ground during Victorian times.
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| Click the images to discover more about taxis in our Collection online. |
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| | Your collection of the month | |
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| | | | | My Collections user sam has begun gathering some of the model trains in our collections, including this hand-built brass, copper and steel replica of a Metropolitan Railway steam locomotive from 1864. | |
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| | New vehicle models from our Shop | |
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| These authentically detailed, high quality model buses and train sets make perfect gifts for collectors. Every purchase helps support our work. |
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 | | Poster artist of the month: Edward McKnight Kauffer | Our first poster artist of the month is Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954). From 1915 until he returned to his native America in 1940, he was the star designer of London’s public transport posters.
His artistic style evolved to show the influences of cubism, futurism and surrealism: this 1930 poster with its bold graphics was influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Click the link below to discover how his art style developed over the years.
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