The London Transport Museum

There are two videos:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=pc5nEVry4tw&feature=related

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_SPNaQCpA

That is the London Transport Museum web:
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/

The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collection 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 transportation in the city.

The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, sometimes suffixed by Covent Garden, and is open to the public every day, having recently reopened following a two year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton, is known as the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site that is open on regular visitor days throughout the year.

The museum was briefly re-named 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.

The museum's main facility is located in a Victorian iron and glass building that originally formed part of the Covent Garden vegetable, fruit and flower market. It was designed as a dedicated flower market by William Rogers in 1871 and is located between Russell Street, Tavistock Street, Wellington Street and the east side of the former market square. The market moved out in 1971, and the building was first occupied by the London Transport Museum in 1980. Previously the colection had been located at Syon Park since 1973 and before that had formed part of the British Transport Museum at Clapham.

The entrance to the museum is from the Covent Garden Piazza, amongst the Piazza's many tourist attractions. The museum is within walking distance from both Covent Garden tube station and Charing Cross railway station.

The Museum Depot is located in Acton, West London, and was opened in October 1999. The depot holds the majority of the Museum's collections which are not on display in the main museum in Covent Garden, is the base for the museum's curators and conservators, and is used for the display of items too large to be accommodated in the main facility.

The depot provides 6,000 square metres of storage space in secure, environmentally controlled conditions and houses over 370,000 items of all types, including many original works of art used for the Museum's collections of posters, signs, models, photographs, engineering drawings and uniforms. The building has both road access and a rail connection to the London Underground network, which allows the storage and display of significant numbers of buses, trams, trolleybuses, rail rolling stock and other vehicles.

The first parts of the collection were brought together at the beginning of the 20th century by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) when it began to preserve buses being retired from service. After the LGOC was taken over by the London Electric Railway (LER), the collection was expanded to include rail vehicles. It continued to expand after the LER became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in the 1930s and as the organisation passed through various successor bodies up to TfL, London's current transport authority.

The collection has had a number of homes. It was housed as part of the Museum of British Transport at a disused tram depot in Clapham High Street in the 1960s and early 1970s, which is now the site of a Sainsbury's supermarket, and then at Syon House in Brentford before being moved to Covent Garden in 1980. Most of the other exhibits moved to York on formation of the National Railway Museum in 1975.

The Covent Garden building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and rail vehicles from 19th and 20th centuries as well as artefacts and exhibits related to the operation and marketing of passenger services and the impact that the developing transport network has had on the city and its population.

Larger exhibits held at Acton depot include a complete 1938 stock tube train as well as early locomotives from the first sub-surface and first deep-level lines.


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London in the 80's

London in the 80's.

1. Who can spot Big Ben and Victoria Station?
2. Why East End boys and West End girls?
   

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Medieval London: The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Tate Britain and the Clink Prison Museum

MEDIEVAL LONDON

The Tower of London.
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.


Westminster Abbey
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) Monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms. It briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1546–1556, and is currently a Royal Peculiar.



Tate Britain
Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It was the first gallery to be established within the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the work of J.M.W. Turner.

Clink Prison Museum
The Clink was the popular name for the prison attached to Winchester House, the palace of the Bishops of Winchester from the 12th century until 1626. Protestant and Catholic prisoners of conscience were held here during the 16th century.

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The Tower of London

Get your own - Open publication

Another song about London

This song is from the musical-film by Tim Burton Sweeny Todd



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The Victoria & Albert Museum

Get your own - Open publication

The British Museum

Here you have a video where you can see a few parts of the British Museum. There is so much to see there, especially if you're interested in history (e.g. it has the biggest collection of Egyptian art and mummies in the world)



British Museum

The British Museum is an important site in London. Ite is the biggest museum in the United Kingdom and the most popular antiques museum in the world!

The British Museum has a National Library too.

It first opened to the public on January, 15th 1759.

By the last years of the nineteenth century, the British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them and it had to be altered.

By the 1970s the Museum was again expanding. More services for the public were introduced; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition "Treasures of Tutankhamun in 1972, attracting 1,694,117 visitors, the most successful in British history.

At present, the British Museum has 10 departments of many things.

There are a lot of departments, galleries and exhibitions:

Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan,Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Department of the Middle East, Department of Prints and Drawings

Department of Asia, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Department of Coins and Medals, Department of Prehistory and Europe

Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science, Libraries and Archives, etc


The oficial web of the museum is

http://www.britishmuseum.org

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