London Museum

The Museum of London was fantastic and it lets you really see and experience London before it was the city we know it today. Some of the things they have found in excavations include pottery from the earlier civilizations, bones from burial sites and tools they used for living. The history of the great fire in London is explained through the experiences of three people who witnessed this tragedy. The end of the museum is of some of the remains from the original London and also things from the old that were buried in the ashes and houses.

In one room they have posters, a video and a documentary on the fight for African American rights. When you hear actual stories of people who lived through this it is sad to think how much they struggled. The posters show faces of protesters who most likely were in jail for their opinions. Some were put in prison for life.

There is a kid section next to the history of the London Fire. The kids can try on hats, see coins and pull out maps of what the city used to look like before the fire. Across is a video of three witnesses of the Fire and how they were awaken to find half the city in flames. The fire took four days until it burned itself out. By then most of the city had been destroyed and most of its population homeless.

The third area of the museum is home life. Models have been constructed of the town and how the houses looked. They incorporate a little of the Romans and their way of life. They have two model rooms that have been set up to replicate their houses. There were tiled floors and a bed with cloth to cover it. Also they showed the inside of what a work shop would look like.

The last area was full of pieces of buildings that were destroyed in the fire or have been dug up. There was a wooden door that I found very pretty and a reconstruction of what St. Paul’s Cathedral looked like before the fire. Stones from building with carvings and paintings on them were on display also.

This was a very nice museum to go to especially if you don’t have much time to spend. I spent about two hours there which compared to the other museums is a very short amount of time. I definitely recommend seeing this museum and learn more about the city of London. Check in to see what my weekend holds for me to do.