Exhibition: Feeling the heat: the race to investigate the Great Fire

Among the ashes, there lay traces — burned human skeletal remains and fire patterns along the wall, among them. These are the remnants of the Great Fire that struck London in 1666.

Team up with your friends and prepare for an out of the ordinary evening where you will discover the modern techniques and the cutting edge science used to investigate accidental fires and arson alike with our Forensic Outreach team.

From analysing burnt bone to glancing inside a portion of a recreated miniature room blackened by soot and smoke, piece together the clues, run your own forensic analyses, and apply principles of arson investigation to investigate how we may have discovered what had happened if the Great Fire had struck two hundred years later.

No previous experience required.