Changing climate
The exhibition which chronicles the changes, the weather in London has gone through over the past 2000 years at the Museum of London. It is on until June 15.
Exhibition curator Jon Cotton said, “We are focusing on the historical oddities of the capital's weather and the ways in which we can know about this through archaeology, diaries, broadsheets, as well as highlighting its quirks and fascination.”
Using a combination of timelines interspersed with unusual objects and eye-brow raising facts ‘Weather Permitting’ offers a fascinating look at London’s weather even from the times before records were kept.
It also highlights how London’s fogs, floods, heat waves and freezes both past and future and how they have, or will, impact the city’s landscape.
The climate exhibition also answers some rather quirky questions like why the Romans introduced the trend of wearing socks and sandals.
Why bones came in handy to make a pair of ice skates? And what inspired the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is falling down’?
London’s burning
Also on show is an exhibition on the Great Fire of 1666. The exhibition, which is on at the Museum of London till 2009-end, tells the story of how Londoners coped with the fire that destroyed large parts of the city in September that year.
Using interactive displays, archaeological finds and 17th century fire-fighting equipment, the Museum of London’s exhibit London’s Burning and the Great Fire of London 1666 illustrates how the disaster shaped the city as we know it today.
