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 foundnnThe story begins with the aid of numerous reconstructions by telling the story of people in Edinburgh in the s moving through time until you will find yourself not too far away from present day Edinburgh nnThis 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 am concerned there is no better way of looking into Edinburghs history