Families visiting the award-winning London Transport Museum in Covent Garden this October half term (Saturday 26 October to Sunday 3 November) can journey ‘through the darkness’
to discover how London’s transport system has kept the city moving through its darkest nights and deepest tunnels.
In a line-up of family-friendly interactive activities, visitors can meet a time-travelling Victorian passenger and step into the shoes of Edwardian engineers. Kids go free to London Transport
Museum! Adult tickets include free return entry for a whole year.
October half term activities include:
Meet the Victorians: London’s first underground passengers
Saturday 26 October to Sunday 3 November
Times: 11:00, 12:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00
Families can hear firsthand from a time travelling Victorian about what it was like to be one of the first brave passengers to travel deep underground almost 140 years ago. Their time
twisting tale will take modern day travellers on a journey through the darkness on London’s first deep level Tube carriage, known as the ‘Padded Cell.’
Below the Surface
Friday 25 to Sunday 27 October and Friday 1 to Sunday 3 November
Times: 10:45, 11:45, 13:45, 14:45, 15:45
In this hands-on session, families with young people aged seven and above can think like Edwardian engineers as they delve below the surface and help solve the problem of how to get passengers
to safely descend onto the deepest underground platforms.
Build Your Own Night Bus
Thursday 31 October to Sunday 3 November
Times: 10:30, 11:30, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30
Would-be transport designers aged five and above, together with their adults, are sure to have fun building their own night bus. This interactive activity celebrates this historic mode
of transport that first took to the dark streets of London over 100 years ago, following the invention of the electric headlamp.
Underground Zone
Saturday 26 October to Wednesday 30 October
Times: 10:30, 11:30, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30
Little ones aged 0-5 can step, or crawl, into the sensory Underground Zone and explore lights and sounds inspired by the tunnels deep beneath the city.
Mapping the Tube
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 3 November
Times: All day
Visitors big and small can test their knowledge, with ‘Mapping the Tube’ an interactive puzzle on London’s Underground Network.
Full programme available here:
www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/families/october-half-term-through-darkness
Stop Press- Hidden London Update
For the first time, families with children aged 10 and above can join London Transport Museum’s award-winning Hidden London guided tours of disused Tube stations and secret subterranean
spaces.
Perfect for October half term is the ‘Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter tour, allowing visitors to step back in time – deep beneath the streets of South London. Built during the Second
World War, this secret underground maze served firstly as an air raid shelter. Modern day families can follow in the footsteps of the wartime Londoners who sought refuge within its walls, on this immersive experience led by an expert guide portraying a 1940s
warden.
Further details on ‘Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter’ and the other Hidden London tours available to book can be found here:
www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london
