The Museum Collections Centre, located at Broughton Market in the New Town district of Edinburgh, is the central storage facility that houses the city's unexhibited collections: objects of social history, applied arts, and childhood. Only accessible through guided tours, it provides privileged access to the city's hidden heritage.
An integral part of the Auld Reekie Retold project, the centre houses over 200,000 objects ranging from antique toys, household tools, decorative ceramics, pantomime costumes to Victorian clay pipes. Some objects are on display in "open storage," meaning they are exhibited on large shelves and open showcases, offering visitors a fascinating behind-the-scenes view of museum collections.