London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum occupies the Victorian flower market building in Covent Garden, a cast-iron and glass structure that gives the collection a fittingly grand industrial backdrop. The museum tells the story of how London's buses, trams, trains, and the Underground have shaped the city and the lives of the people who move through it every day. Its permanent galleries hold original vehicles, historic posters, and engineering artefacts spanning nearly two centuries of public transport, from horse-drawn omnibuses to the earliest deep-level Tube trains.

Beyond the permanent collection, the museum runs a programme of temporary exhibitions, family events, and behind-the-scenes experiences that draw on one of the world's most distinctive archives of transport design and social history. The iconic London Underground map, conceived by Harry Beck in 1931, is among the most celebrated design objects associated with the collection. Situated in Covent Garden Piazza, the museum is one of London's most distinctive cultural institutions, as recognisable for its building as for what it holds inside.