text: Absolutely great day outand you will need a day partly because this place is a maze and you could very easily be lost in here for a day but mainly because there is loads to seennCovering Scottish history starting with Beginnings and Early People and ending with Industry and Empire you could come back here time and time again and still find something new to see or learnnnA lot of the museum is standard museum practice historical artefacts behind glass but there are nods to a more interactive experience with touch screens that show more detail on certain items including the guillotine and for the children there are dressing up areas an activity area with colouring books and other child like stuff and a board game that I enjoyed at the age of although clearly marketed at the under snnI also have to mention the lovely woman who dressed in Ye Olde Clothes walks round one of the exhibitions answering any question you care to ask She was really friendly and obviously really knows her history