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If your are into transport and vehicles then London Transport Museum was recently modernised and considerably improved to incorporate the old and new. It was officially opened in November 2007 and I attended the ceremony so what you get in this piece is what I actually saw and feel compelled to write about.

The museum is located in the historic Floral Hall of Covent Garden Market and exhibits and highlights  behind the scenes activity of London’s transport system as we know it today. The new venue will be showing old as  well new  exhibits and is really popular with all age groups as well  as men and women. One of the best things to come out of this renovation is that there 25% more space to show more transport and transport related items-in realistic terms this allows for threefold increase in how many objects will be shown here over the next few years. “Best Train Set” in the world is one of the most popular items,especially with children:as well as items depicting the history of the London buses from the earliest horse-drawn omni-buses to the very latest “Bendy Buses”. Other than the surface transport system,there a grand display depicting how we came to have the present London Underground system.

The museum’s artefacts,exhibition galleries realistically unfold the complicated story of the development of the capital:its communities through the public transport system from the past,present and looking to the future.

Many of the old favourites like the very first underground steam engine is being exhibited alongside many fresh and new technologies-which tell us what the transport system will look like fifty years from now. The highlight of the visit in my opinion was the interactive display,plus simulators where you can experience what it is like to drive an underground train.

Artists and photographers will be delighted to learn that many of the underground advertising posters which have iconographic of London as a whole means that there will be more displays of items created by Man Ray,McKnight&Kauffer and Harry Beck’s original art-work for the world famous 1930s underground map.

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