London Transport Museum

The Transport Museum is located in the Covent Garden district. It was created to show how the urban transport system developed in it as the capital grew. The collection includes nearly 450,000 exhibits: buses, trains, information boards, maps, posters, photographs, old timetables. Most of them are located in the branch of the museum in the Acton district.

The beginning of the collection was given by Victorian buses, which in the 1920s were decided to be preserved for future generations. The museum was then housed in an old bus garage in the Clapham district, then in Syon Park. Since 1980, the museum occupies the historic building of the former market, where vegetables, fruits and flowers were sold. The market itself has been operating since 1670, but the Victorian steel and glass building was designed by William Rogers in 1871.