Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Museum that commemorates historical times in New York, with exhibits such as shop life, sweatshop workers, hard times, irish outsiders, exploring 97 orchard, sweatshop workers, and more!

If you think living in early 21st-Century NYC is difficult, take a trip back to a hundred or so years ago and see what it was like for immigrants and the underclass on the Lower East Side. The museum offers a range of tours as well as interactive experiences involving "visiting" actors playing characters from the LES's past.

The museum can be seen by guided tour only. Tours run every 40 minutes on weekdays and every half-hour on weekends. Reserved tours for groups larger than 10 are on Mondays.

This fascinating museum is located in an actual tenement and tells the story of the people who had lived there. Tours of the building are...

If you think living in early 21st-Century NYC is difficult, take a trip back to a hundred or so years ago and see what it was like for immigrants and the underclass on the Lower East Side. The museum offers a range of tours as well as interactive experiences involving "visiting" actors playing characters from the LES's past.

This museum is the first-ever National Trust for Historic Preservation site that was not the home of someone rich or famous. It’s something quite different: a five-story tenement that 10,000 people from 25 countries called home between 1863 and 1935—people who had come to the United States looking for the American dream and made 97 Orchard St. their first stop. The tenement museum tells the...

Only a few blocks from what had been the heart of the Yiddish theater this museum is housed along a hunched row of buildings on Orchard Street. It illustrates how a typical Jewish family lived in respectable poverty, relieved by the knowledge that there would be no Cossacks riding into their lives, no laws forbidding them to attend plays in their own tongue and no one to restrict their...

Museum that commemorates historical times in New York, with exhibits such as shop life, sweatshop workers, hard times, irish outsiders, exploring 97 orchard, sweatshop workers, and more!

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