Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

London Transport Museum

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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.

What's the nearest railway station to London Transport Museum

The nearest station is Covent Garden Tube Station which is 0.2 miles away.

News

London Transport Museum exhibition bridges 1940s London and 2020s Kyiv

Mar
07
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Hidden parts of Holborn tube station to open to the public

Feb
13
2024

Tickets Alert: Walk through the Thames railway tunnel

Nov
15
2023

You can now buy Elizabeth and Bakerloo line moquette ties

Nov
03
2023

London Transport Museum’s new exhibition unveils poster art’s hidden history

Oct
18
2023

Open days at the Transport Museum’s Acton Depot

Aug
28
2023

Vintage tube train trips return to London in September

Aug
13
2023

Explore Baker Street station’s disused spaces in a new London Transport Museum tour

Aug
09
2023

Go behind the scenes as LT Museum adds Baker Street station to their Hidden London tours

Jul
06
2023

Tickets Alert: Ride a heritage tube train through central London next month

Jun
27
2023

Tickets Alert: Vintage tube train trips to Heathrow Airport

May
26
2023

New range to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground

May
25
2023

The Art Deco heritage tube train returns to the London Underground

Apr
14
2023

Reimagined vintage tube posters celebrate London’s live art and culture

Apr
05
2023

More tours of disused and hidden parts of the London Underground

Jan
31
2023

More tours of disused parts of the London Underground

Nov
07
2022

Tickets Alert: Take a trip in a vintage tube train

Aug
01
2022

Behind the scenes tours of Shepherd’s Bush tube station

Jul
27
2022

You can now buy old London Underground strap hangers

Jul
24
2022

SOLD OUT – Free entry to the London Transport Museum over the Jubilee weekend

May
25
2022

Virtual tours of Elizabeth line stations

Apr
26
2022

Up to half-price off old London Underground collectables

Mar
24
2022

London Transport Museum depot opens its posters archive

Mar
16
2022

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