text: This small museum sums up what I would consider to be missing from the big Museum of Scotland at the other end of the Royal Mile.  This is because this museum is about the lives of the common people of those times and that is where the real history can be found.\n\nThe story begins, with the aid of numerous reconstructions, by telling the story of people in Edinburgh in the 1800s moving through time until you'll find yourself not too far away from present day Edinburgh.  \n\nThis is a delightful museum and its information boards do absorb you as you travel through time learning how real people lived.  As far as I'm concerned there's no better way of looking into Edinburgh's history.