The People's Story Museum — Attraction in City of Edinburgh

I had a delight visiting The People’s Story Museum. While I had a good experience visiting the Museum of Edinburgh (which was across the street), I found this one far more engaging. Let’s break down why.

There were several places where wax figures were presented to depict the daily lives of Edinburgh. I really liked the second floor, which featured different depictions of the labor class mobilizing to secure more rights. In particular, I was interested in how socialism gathered a strong foothold among the working class before it led to the formation of the Labor party in the early 1900s.

If there one critique I can provide, it’s that several of the informational boards have a ton of text on them. So it can get very crowded trying to look at pictures, key quotes, and informational text. I understand that space is limited so I wonder if there can be one board on top and another on the bottom.

Personally, I find that there is a lot of things left unsaid by the exhibits when it comes to working class rights and fighting for more rights during the 19th and 20th century. I believe a more cohesive overview or organization will have crystallized the...

A museum in "the old style". Meaning lots of texts and display with mannequins and not much modern technology.

The People's Story Museum tells the tale of the normal people of Edinburgh and how they lived, it is unfortunate though that they tell very little personal tales. Maybe these simply don't exist anymore, but it seems odd that there are not any bits or pieces of diaries to be found anywhere in the historical records. Therefore it seems like a rather general tale that is there to be told. This is a tale that does get overlooked in other museums that focus on the bigger picture of history, and the grand tales of kings and queens of the past.

By the way, be prepared for old-museum-smell: a tad dusty, lots of old wood, and the windows haven't been opened in a while making the air rather stale. Still, for a nice little break from walking outside this place is a good hide out to kill half an hour to an hour. It is free, running on volunteers and donations only so you get to choose if you want little museums like these to continue to exist. In the history of Museums themselves they are invaluable as they portray a part of...

What an interesting museum that covers the life and work of ordinary people. It's a medium sized museum over three floors with a mixture of mock-ups, exhibits and history lessons. Essentially the museum is all about the the working classes of Edinburgh over the last 200/300 years.

The first floor gives a glimpse of how hard life would've been for the poorest working in the lowest status jobs 300 years ago. Then as you move up the floors, the exhibits turns towards pre-modern times and the typical jobs of the working classes, with lots of exhibits and information about jobs such as dockers, malters, fish-wifes etc and the rise of unionism that lead to better working conditions. Finally on the third floor covers the modern period with lots of mock-up such as typical working class house, wash-houses (laundrettes washing by hand I think).

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