The People's Story Museum

Free museum of working-class Edinburgh in the Canongate Tolbooth

Address Canongate Tolbooth, 163 Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8BN
Opening Hours Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
Phone 0131 529 4057

A small free museum housed in the 16th-century Canongate Tolbooth, telling the story of working-class Edinburgh from the 18th century to the present through reconstructed rooms, oral history recordings and everyday objects. A good antidote to all the kings and castles further up the Royal Mile.

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