About London Transport Museum
A museum devoted to the history of public transport in London.
From the early buses and trams, through to the world's first underground railway and up to modern times.
Numerous galleries showing objects from their collection, dotted around actual trains and buses.
There is usually a temporary exhibition or two running throughout the year.
Address
London Transport Museum,
Covent Garden Piazza,
London,
WC2E 7BB
Ticket prices
All tickets offer unlimited repeat visits for a year.
- Adults: £24
- Children: Free
- Concessions: £23
- Local Resident: £18
- Universal Credit and Pension Credit: £1
Prices last checked June 2023.
Link to London Transport Museum's website
Opening Hours
The museum is open every day from 10am to 6pm, with the last entry at 5pm.
Note that the museum does occasionally open late due to events, so best to check if making a special trip and wanting to visit before 11am.
Opening hours last checked June 2023.
Accessibility
The museum is accessible for wheelchair users with level access at the Ticket Desk, and lifts to all floors. There are ramps in some areas. Due to the historic nature of our collection, not all of the vehicles are accessible. To support your visit, a wheelchair is available for visitor use.
The area outside the Museum is cobbled, with a level path part of the way round.
Frequently asked questions
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London Transport Museum - Latest News
Later this month, for one weekend only, there’s a chance to walk through a railway tunnel under the River Thames.
You can now wear the Elizabeth line or Bakerloo line around your neck, as moquette ties have gone on sale at the London Transport Museum.
From the iconic Fly the Tube poster to designs by women at a time when few women worked, a new exhibition celebrating the art of poster design is opening at the London Transport Museum.
Next month, the London Transport Museum is hosting the final Depot Open Day event of 2023, offering the public an opportunity to explore behind the scenes of its working Museum store in Acton Town.
The 1938 era art-deco tube train will be back out on the railway again next month, running along the Met line in northwest London.
Next month, people will be able to see parts of Baker Street station that have rarely been seen before, as the station joins the Hidden London series of tours run by the London Transport Museum.
There will be a chance to go behind the scenes at Baker Street tube station this autumn, as the London Transport Museum adds it to their ongoing Hidden London tours.
Next month is a chance to ride in a 1938 era tube train through central London and up to north London on the Piccadilly line.
A tube train built in 1938 and restored to its art-deco original interior will be running between central London and Heathrow Aiport next month.
The London Transport Museum has launched a new range of accessories to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground, using designs created by the same team that design the tube’s moquette seats.
A tube train built in 1938 and restored to its art-deco original interior will be returning to the London Underground for the May bank holiday.
A series of historic tube posters promoting travel in London have been reimagined and will be appearing in tube stations next week.
More tickets have been released for the London Transport Museum’s tours of the private and disused parts of the London Underground.
London Transport Museum’s new season of Hidden London tours is now on sale, offering access to parts of the Underground usually off limits to the public.
After a lengthy wait, the London Transport Museum’s 1938 art-deco style tube train will be back on the tracks for a couple of days in September.
Concealed parts of Shepherd’s Bush tube station dating from its original construction in 1900 will be visible again, as the London Transport Museum adds the station to its itinerary of Hidden London tours.
Persons of a certain age will be very familiar with the old strap hangers from old tube trains with their grey bulbous end and metal spring-like hanger — and now you can own your very own strap hanger
Adults can visit the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden for free each afternoon over the Platinum Jubilee Weekend (Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 June), if you book a ticket in advance.
Before the new Elizabeth line opens to the public, there are a series of virtual tours being offered by the London Transport Museum, focusing on two of the new central London stations.
The London Transport Museum is having a sale on some of its old railway ephemera, with discounts from old tube door buttons to entire train driver seats.
London Transport Museum’s storage depot in Acton is throwing open its doors for a few days in April for visitors to explore the Museum’s century worth of transport posters, as well as the rest of the depot.
In the 1950s and 60s, London Transport, struggling to recruit staff locally, turned to the Caribbean, and in doing so changed not just London’s transport, but London itself.
The disused London Underground station at Aldwych is to once again open its doors to let people down and see this most famous of abandoned tube stations.
Tours of disused parts of the London Underground will resume in the New Year for the first time since March 2020, and tickets go on sale this coming Friday (3rd Dec).
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