London Transport Museum

London Transport Museum

Location within City of Westminster
Established	1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Location	Covent Garden London, WC2
Coordinates	51°30′43″N 0°07′18″W / 51.51194°N 0.12167°W / 51.51194; -0.12167
Type	Transport museum
Visitors	411,766 (2019)[1]
Owner	Transport for London
Public transit access	Covent Garden Aldwych 11, 15, 26, 76, 172, 243, 341
Website	www.ltmuseum.co.uk

The London Transport Museum (LTM) is a transport museum based in Covent Garden, London. The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating to the heritage of London's transport, as well as conserving and explaining the history of it. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collections of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of transport in the city and in some instances beyond.^[2]

The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, and is open to the public every day excluding over Christmas,^[3] having reopened in 2007 after a two-year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton, is the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site of historic artefacts that is open to the public on scheduled visitor days throughout the year.

The museum also runs an exclusive programme of guided tours, Hidden London, which takes visitors to part of the London Underground that are typically closed to the public, including disused stations and wartime shelters.^[4]

The museum was briefly renamed London's Transport Museum to reflect its coverage of topics beyond London Transport, but it reverted to its previous name in 2007 to coincide with the reopening of the Covent Garden site.