Firestyle Magazine Issue 3 - Spring 2016 | Page 32

GENERAL INTEREST

Museum of London unveils neverbefore-seen archaeological
artefacts from forthcoming
exhibition, Fire! Fire!
Fire! Fire! - Museum of London - 23 July 2016 – 17 April 2017 - Sponsored by Eversheds
The Museum of London has
revealed further details about its
forthcoming major exhibition, Fire!
Fire!, opening in July.
Marking the 350th anniversary of the
Great Fire of London, the exhibition
will focus on life on the eve of the
fire, the dramatic events that took
place as the blaze burned through

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a quarter of the city in 1666, and
how London recovered from the
devastation. As one of London’s most
enduringly popular historical events,
Fire! Fire! is expected to have broad
appeal, especially with families and
school groups.
Fire! Fire! is designed to be one
of the Museum of London’s most

immersive and interactive exhibitions
to date, with setworks to recreate
Pudding Lane and a huge moving
panorama of London in flames. A
variety of incredibly fragile flamescarred archaeological artefacts
reveal the destructive power of the
inferno, while letters from eyewitnesses
who escaped convey the terror and
desperation that ordinary Londoners
felt in the face of the fire.