In our two historic tenements, visitors and K-12 students explore the homes of diverse families with roots all over the world, who lived in New York City between the 1860s and the 1980s. We offer interactive guided tours of our buildings and the iconic Lower East Side neighborhood.

The Tenement Museum Tour Calendar. Apartment Tours, Neighborhood Walking Tours, Meet the Residents, and more.

For the last 30 years, the Tenement Museum has interpreted NYC migration history through guided indoor and walking tours. Plan a visit today!

2024年5月29日 · The Tenement Museum tells the stories of working-class tenement residents, who moved to New York City from other countries and other parts of the country. Their work helped build the city and nation, and their stories help us understand our history.

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a museum and National Historic Site located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The museum's two historical tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011.

Once home to 7,000 immigrants between 1863 and 1935, the Tenement Museum now provides a unique look into the lives of its former residents and the history of New York's Lower East Side.

We intended to visit the Tenement Museum on a visit to NYC in 2021 and ran out of time. In the interim between that trip and this trip, we had a chance to visit the Tenement Museum virtually and participate in a couple of virtual lectures and video tours.

2023年9月27日 · By recreating historic living quarters, the museum allows visitors to step inside the lives of 19th- and 20th-century immigrants to New York City.

2023年2月23日 · The Tenement Museum is a National Historic Landmark and an Affiliated Site of the National Park Service.The Tenement Museum shares stories of the immigrant and migrant experience through guided tours of tenement apartments on Orchard Street and the surrounding neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The Tenement Museum welcomes you into the homes of immigrant, migrant, and refugee families to inspire connections between past and present and to promote an inclusive and expansive American society. We tell the stories of working-class tenement residents who moved to New York City from other countries and other parts of the country.