All change at the LTM

ALTHOUGH unintended, Wendy Neville’s time as head of communications at the London Transport Museum has been framed by closure.

When recruited in 2007, the Covent Garden-based museum was closed to the public as it was coming to the end of a two-year refurbishment; by the time of her retirement on May 15, 2020, the first Covid lockdown was in force and the museum was again closed to the public.

The aim of the 2005-2007 refurbishment was to improve the way the LTM displayed its artefacts, allowing it to tell a more comprehensive and multi-dimensional story of how London’s transport system impacted social history and changed society. The museum also wanted to explain how technological changes had created more efficient transport links into the suburbs, which in turn helped London to grow and prosper, as well as explaining the value of design and how transport is relevant to our lives as part of the wider fabric