The People's Story is an excellent museum with a clearly socialist bent. The People's Story museum is not necessarily out-and-out Communist propaganda the way some Americans might think when I use \"the S word\". There are no posters of Marx and Lenin, no soviet flags or banners with Che's face emblazoned on them. \n\nThe museum tells the story of what life was like for poor and working-class Edinburghers, which immediately sets it apart from most history museums that mainly dwell on wars or glorifying political and business leaders.The People's Story does not shy away from the fact that life for working-class people is tough, which may be anathema in the home of Adam Smith. It also does not concentrate on Horatio Alger style rags-to-riches stories, but illustrates the ways people took collective (rather than individual) action to better their situation. Creating cooperatives, forming labor unions, and yes - joining the socialist party. It also showed that workers were better off when they organized.\n\nThe most interesting exhibit showed the various jobs in Edinburgh in the 19th century and compared them to modern day. This exhibit seems dated because \"modern day\" in this case means 1988, when the exhibit was likely created. I'm fairly sure the paper industry in Edinburgh is no longer geared towards creating continuous-feed paper for dot matrix printers, for example. Still, seeing the change in the way these jobs were done (and even what jobs exist) over time is fascinating. \n\nOther exhibits looked at immigration in the 1700s, law and order, women's rights, and social life. The social life one was amusing to me in that it featured a stereotypical early 80s punk rocker. \n\nAnyway, the museum is free and worth checking out.