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The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden has been delighting Londoners since 1980. Its embrace of young audiences – it offers free tickets for children and has a banging soft play – alongside hardcore transport nerds meaning it’s always booming (and that’s before we get onto the cool tours of London’s abandoned underground spaces it runs). Last year the LTM welcomed 450,000 visitors: a record.
To celebrate its imminent fiftieth birthday in 2030, the London Transport Museum is set to undergo a dramatic ‘once-in-a-generation’ revamp.
Upgrades will be significant but not too disruptive, and the museum will not be closing as a result. The most visibly significant difference is that there will be a new entrance directly onto the Covent Garden Piazza – if you’ve never been to the LTM and didn’t realise it was smack bang in the middle of Covent Garden then you will now.
LTM will also be gaining approximately 500 square metres of space to expand its galleries and learning experiences, with a goal of an overall 20 percent increase in visitors.
There’s some other stuff happening that will probably be a but less visible, most notably some major environmental upgrades that include low carbon heating and other sustainability improvements.
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