New Museum of London exhibition allows visitors to recreate the city after the Great Fire of 1666

A new exhibition at the Museum of London recreates scenarios from the Great Fire of 1666, allowing visitors to step back in time to Pudding Lane.

Fire! Fire! recreates scenarios from the disaster that took place 350 years ago, including the scene inside the bakery where the blaze began and objects salvaged from the flames.

As well as hearing experiences of people affected by the fire, the exhibition includes an interactive activity that allows visitors to imagine what they would do faced with the task of rebuilding the capital.

Curator Meriel Jeater told London Live: “The exhibition starts off in Pudding Lane and we’ve recreated, in an imaginative way, what Pudding Lane might have been like, with narrow, wooden buildings.

“You go into the bakery and watch the fire begin, and then you can see the fire spreading across London.

“Then you can investigate all the different evidence from the fire – items that have been excavated by archaeologists in the City of London, showing all the debris left behind by the fire and the effect of the flames on people’s ordinary buildings and their household belongings.

“It was really important to us to create an immersive and interactive exhibition because we know this a subject that is studied at school.”

Conservator Rebecca Lang told London Live: “There are objects here, which were found in the cellar of a building very close to pudding lane where the fire started.

“These are iron objects, which can be a bit difficult to understand as iron corrodes and can just look like a massive lump of corrosion. But we’ve displayed them here together with their x-rays so you can see what’s inside.

“It’s great for people to be able to discover themselves what is inside the objects, and there is a group of locks, keys, and other objects, that would have been part of an iron monger’s shop.”

The exhibition runs at the Museum of London until April 17, 2017.