People's Story Museum, Edinburgh

The People's Story Museum
Canongate Tolbooth
163 Canongate
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH8 8BN
Scotland

Website

www.cac.org.uk

Telephone

0131 529 4057

Fax

0131 557 3346

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Housed in the late 16th century Canongate Tolbooth opposite Huntly House, ' The People's Story ' is a museum with a difference. As the name implies, it uses oral history, reminiscence, and written sources to tell the story of the lives, work and leisure of the ordinary people of Edinburgh, from the late 18th century to the present day.
The museum is filled with the sounds, sights and smells of the past - a prison cell, town crier, reform parade, cooper's workshop, fishwife, servant at work, dressmaker, 1940s kitchen, a wash-house, pub and tea room.

These reconstructions are complemented by displays of photographs, everyday objects and rare artifacts, such as the museum's outstanding collections of traded union banners and friendly society regalia. A twenty-minute video presentation supplements the museum's storyline.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sundays during August 12 noon - 5pm

Closed: Sundays except during August

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in lecture theatres
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Study facilities

The People's Story Museum
Canongate Tolbooth
163 Canongate
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH8 8BN
Scotland

Website

www.cac.org.uk

Telephone

0131 529 4057

Fax

0131 557 3346

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Land Transport, Science and Technology, Social History

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

The People's Story Museum
Canongate Tolbooth
163 Canongate
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH8 8BN
Scotland

Website

www.cac.org.uk

Telephone

0131 529 4057

Fax

0131 557 3346

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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