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Tenement house tour nyc. Business insider tells you all you need to know about business finance. This tour takes place on the second floor of 97 orchard street in a series of small low lit apartments. The tenement museum provides walking tours and is a popular attraction in the lower east side nyc. Guided tours demonstrate the challenges newcomers to america faced and show how migrants helped shape the area.
Take a trip through the tenement museum in new york city. The tenement museum preserves the history of immigration through the personal accounts of those who built lives in the lower. Shop life also visits the space once occupied by an auction house and explores the stories of 97 orchard street businesses in an interactive multimedia exhibit. The tenement museum is temporarily closed effective saturday march 14.
Mike gilliam s visit to the tenement museum in the lower east side. This is not your traditional museum the tenement museum is a testament to the lives of the immigrant families of new york and you are only experiencing a moment in its entire existence. The tenement museum focuses on america s urban immigrant history. Visit a recreated lager beer saloon from the late 1800s and learn about the family that owned and operated the business while living in a tenement apartment behind it.
This tour uses an outdoor stairwell with an open stair. Virtual field trips for teachers and caregivers through june on tuesdays 4 5 grade wednesdays 7 8 grade and thursdays high school. Virtual visits family learning and activity events for details on the length of. While the museum is temporarily closed to the public we are offering virtual programming.
In an 1863 tenement building the captivating tenement museum provides insights into the hardscrabble lives of newly arrived immigrant families in new york city s lower east side during the 19th and 20th centuries. Limited seating will be available during the tour. The museum offers a variety of educator led apartment tours inside our two historic tenement buildings 97 and 103 orchard street and walking tours within the lower east side neighborhood to educate visitors about the immigrant experience in the united states. Tours start from the museum s gift shop where you store your things the tenement house is.