London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum brings London’s transport history under one roof, and since 2000 that story has widened from London Transport to the whole remit of Transport for London. The museum is run by TfL and operates from two sites: its public-facing Covent Garden museum, and the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton, which is mainly for storing historic artefacts and is open on scheduled visitor days. Covent Garden’s main building is a Victorian iron-and-glass structure that originally formed part of the Covent Garden vegetable, fruit and flower market. Designed as a dedicated flower market by William Rogers in 1871, it was built for a different kind of daily rhythm—then later became the setting for exhibits drawn largely from London Transport’s collections. After a two-year refurbishment, the Covent Garden site reopened in 2007, and the museum reverted to its earlier name that year. …
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