Museum
The People's Story Museum
Recreated tenement rooms, wartime kitchen, jail cell and pub scenes tracing ordinary working lives across three centuries.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the People's Story Museum in Edinburgh starts with two waxwork couples in adjoining rooms, one at a Princes Street tea room, one at a nearby pub, whose overlapping conversations you can hear through headphones. It traces the building's own life as a sixteenth-century jail for the once-separate burgh of Canongate, and its 1989 turn toward telling the story of ordinary coopers, brewers and distillers rather than lords. Try standing between the two waxwork rooms and switching which conversation you follow.
This audio guide was created using AI.