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When long commutes on the tube, squished like a sardine against a stranger’s sweaty armpit, have turned you sour to our fair city’s transport network, there’s one place in London that’ll always make you fall back in love with the city’s trains, buses, trams and more.
The London Transport Museum has been welcoming history buffs, design lovers and train-obsessed tots to its Grade II-listed halls since 1980. A horse-drawn omnibus from 1805 and a wooden Metropolitan Railway coach are among the Covent Garden museum’s many wonders, transporting you back to ye olde times before boarding the Circle line meant being forced to sit next to someone watching TikTok on full volume.
The museum will soon become even more of a draw, as plans have been revealed for new exhibition galleries. London Transport Museum is converting an 840 square foot office area on the first floor into the Wellington gallery (that’s the working title, at least).
The soon-to-be upgraded space is next to its existing art deco poster exhibition, which boasts more than 100 original (and pretty damn chic) poster designs from the likes of Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty and Jean Dupas.
Pop up displays are planned for the new space, but its main function will be as additional space for educational work and collabs with local community groups. Volunteers will also get their own meeting room as part of the revamp.
The planning application has just been approved by Westminster Council and the new space is expected to open this summer. It’s part of a bigger glow-up of the LTM thanks to a £12 million grant from TfL. In November 2025, the museum opened a new audio-visual gallery titled the Platform media gallery, which features video content exploring the stories of how life in the capital has changed over the past 200 years.
The museum also plans to reconfigure the existing staircase in the centre of its main display space ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2030.
Plus, the museum has just announced it’s bringing back its Hidden London tours, which unlock the disused stations, time-capsule corridors, closed platforms, filming locations and wartime shelters which live untouched beneath our feet.
The London Transport Museum is among Time Out’s ranking of the 25 best museums in London for 2026. Check out the full list here.
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