Lower East Side Tenement Museum

  • 6 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
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Size: 154 x 38

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+1 212 982 8420

Website:

www.tenement.org

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My 2 daughters and I went (very easy to get to using public transportation) and it was an eye opening experience. more on Yahoo! Travel

If you liked Ellis Island, you'll LOVE the Tenement Museum. more on TripAdvisor

It was great museum, very realistic and true to the time period. more on Yahoo! Travel

I would also recommend getting the book 97 Orchard (I got it more our local Florida library)......the book just came out in 2010 and is a food history of the families in the building, describing the i ... more on TripAdvisor

I left the tour with a strong feeling that I could have got better value elsewhere for my $17.00. more on Yahoo! Travel

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We took the 'hard times' tour, which focuses on a 19th Century German family and an Italian family in the early 20th century by taking you into their respective apartments. The rooms been furnished wi ... more on TripAdvisor

My grandson thought the tenement museum was a great experience! more on TripAdvisor

The Lower East Side neighborhood now is hip and happening, so it would be hard to picture it as a tenement enclave for newly arrived immigrants if not for the Tenement Museum. The museum is very small ... more on TripAdvisor

I liked the hands on experience of actually going to a building and seeing where people lived and learning about their lives. I didn't love our tour guide. Even though she was knowledgeable, she talke ... more on TripAdvisor

The Tenement Museum has programs that reenact the experience of immigrant families in the Lower East Side in the 1800s. It allows groups to enter apartments that are recreations ... more on TripAdvisor

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My older daughter had to visit a NY site that was important in NY history. I suggested the Tenement Museum from what I had heard about it in the past. My 2 daughters and I went (very easy to get to using public transportation) and ... more on Yahoo! Travel

Really brings the history of immigrants to this city alive. I would recommend it to all. more on Yahoo! Travel

It was great museum, very realistic and true to the time period. Worth checking out if you're interested in Manhattan's ... more on Yahoo! Travel

If you want to understand NY, you have to come and see this museum. You can visit real apartments where real people lived. You get ... more on Yahoo! Travel

This museum is definitely a waste of time and money. They show you a couple of rooms in a semi-derelict building (of which there are many on the lower east side and in Brooklyn) and try to convey a sense of how tough folks had it ... more on Yahoo! Travel

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