Tenement Museum
History museum · Lower East Side
103 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
Highlights
Guided tours bring immigrant stories to life in restored tenements
Guided tours bring immigrant stories to life in restored tenements
"The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is, as the name implies, a historic tenement house (two, if you want to get technical). On a tour of the tenements, you’ll hear personal histories of the working-class individuals who lived there and see how they made do with cramped quarters to build new lives in America. On a neighborhood walking tour—the other way to visit the museum—you’ll learn about the evolution of the Lower East Side and how its thriving immigrant population made it the most densely populated area in the country during the 1900s." - Andrea Whittle, Charlie Hobbs
"The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is, as the name implies, a historic tenement house (two, if you want to get technical). On a tour of the tenements, you’ll hear personal histories of the working-class individuals who lived there and see how they made do with cramped quarters to build new lives in America. On a neighborhood walking tour—the other way to visit the museum—you’ll learn about the evolution of the Lower East Side and how its thriving immigrant population made it the most densely populated area in the country during the 1900s." - Charlie Hobbs, Alex Erdekian, Melissa Liebling-Goldberg
"I learned that after a five-year break the Tenement Museum will once again offer 90-minute Lower East Side food tours that take visitors to five food vendors in lower Manhattan; tickets are available online for $55 per person." - Luke Fortney
"The Tenement Museum showcases how NYC’s immigrants used to live." - Laura Begley Bloom
"The museum offers an intimate and immersive lesson on immigration, showcasing restored tenement apartments from the 19th-century era." - Travel + Leisure Editors
