A Collection of a Million items!

Busy working away in our archive and small object store with our group of dedicated volunteers. We are re-organizing the collection held in there – over 1 million items and it is a massive job.

It’s a bit like trying to work out a big, complicated puzzle! Some days it seems like a never ending task but we have a much better understanding of what we have in there now and we can find things much more easily than we could two years ago so it must be working! Priorities at the moment are sorting out duplicate magazines (we have counted, listed and boxed over 10,000 of these now) and clearing space in our holding bay ready for new material coming in.

Still finding boxes of weird and wonderful things I have never seen before. I found a small box of gold leaf that had been used by a former coach builder yesterday, lots of old driving licences and some receipts for bikes dating from the turn of the last century. It’s a very dusty but interesting job right now!

Blitz Exhibition - Joint Project

We have been working on a joint exhibition with London Transport Museum and Dresden Transport Museum all about the blitz / firestorm in each city with the focus on public transport. It’s called ‘Under Attack’ and will initially be held in London from early September until the end of March – check out London Transport Museum’s website for further details.

Spent a few days last week getting images ready so they can be blown up and added to big graphic panels for the exhibition. It took a long time to scan them in and save them as the designers need them to be really huge.

Really excited about seeing the exhibition when it’s all completed - should be really interesting and thought provoking!