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Auld Reekie Retold Exhibition Guide
Revisit your favourite stories on show at the Auld Reekie Retold exhibition on the online version.

Newhaven Family photos
Find out about the detective work to discover who is in the photographs, and then read how the Auld Reekie Retold team found descendants of the family and caught their story.

Edinburgh Prisons
Discover more about Edinburgh's prisons. Did you know that Edinburgh has had at least 4 prisons right in the city centre? 

Childhood memories
Did you like the soft toy dog? Want to hear the story of him and the little girl who owned him? Listen to the Auld Reekie Retold podcast on a Snapshot of Growing Up. Skip to 1"03 for the section on these albums.

Photographic Card viewer
See more images of the viewer and listen to a podcast about how this curious item has links to a universal exhibition and the suffragette movement.

Cooking up the Past
Hungry? Let the Auld Reekie Retold team show you how to make soda scones from a recipe of the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science on our Cooking up the Past films. While it's cooking, read our blog about the college.

Mrs. Reid of Lauriston and her friends
More detective work. This time from Lauriston castle to find the story behind the Reid family photo albums.

A Night at the Opera
Listen to a recording of Joseph Hislop singing the aria La Donna e Mobile. This is from Rigoletto, and on stage he would have been wearing the costume shown in the exhibition.

Don't know what to choose?
Browse all the Auld Reekie Retold blogs and podcasts here.

Or book yourself on to a tour of our wonderful Museum Collections Centre and see what life in museums is like behind the scenes! Take a sneak peek at what you'll see there on the Auld Reekie Retold exhibition film.