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Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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97 Orchard St New York NY 10002
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(212) 431-0233
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(877) 975-3786
Fax
(212) 431-0402

Business Hours

Status: Closes in 23 minutes

Sunday
10:00am-6:00pm
Monday
10:00am-6:00pm
Tuesday
10:00am-6:00pm
Wednesday
10:00am-6:00pm
Thursday
10:00am-6:00pm
Friday
10:00am-6:00pm
Saturday
10:00am-6:00pm

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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!

So much of New York is fast-paced, bright-lights, big-people stuff. But a lot of it is scalable for kids. From cool trains, to math-inspired gadgets, to old-fashioned carousels and candy stores, these...view...

The Tenement Museum tells the true stories of American immigrant families through recreated apartments in a historic tenement building constructed in 1863. We also offer neighborhood walking tours, evening programs, free English language classes and programs for school groups.

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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum tells the stories of immigrant families who resided in the historic tenement at 97 Orchard Street between 1863 and 1935.

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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.

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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...

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The Tenement Museum's mission is "to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America."

The heart of the Museum is the tenement at 97 Orchard Street. Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 97 Orchard was home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20...

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Must see! Might be too hot in the summer though

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100

Friends recommended the Tenement Museum and what great advice! The tours fill up quickly but any of the selection of tours would be great. There was a video presentation - a documentary - of the earlier times of NYC and what it must have been like to be an immigrant in the late 1800's early 1900. Fasinating, educational, eye opening....

A fascinating insight into the first few years of immigrants in New York

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This is well worth a visit if you want to properly understand what life (and death) was like for the waves of immigrants who came to the USA via New York. It is a good history lesson on who came, when, why and what they did when they got here

Lovely museum and very informed guide

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100

The museum offers different tours that are very interestiung. I've been to the Sweatshop one and it was fascinating to see how a whole family and an factory can be in the same apartment.
The guide (a nice lady, unfortunatelly I don't remember her name) was very good.

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The museum was interesting in that they asked the guests questions and had tablets with items that you could find out more about. We were expecting to tour a whole tenement and see more about how real people lived. You only see one floor and they tell you a story about a possible family. I wanted real historic information. Also,...

Wonderful Experience. Little hidden gem

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100

What a fabulous living history museum. Went on 2 tours, the Sweatshop and Irish tour. We really loved the highly educated and personable guides. The partially restored building is so interesting. The tourist shop is a tour in itself. Bought some fabulous prezzies there. Interesting to all tourists including international. Highly recommend you to take an hour out of your...

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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!

This apartment community was built in 1900 and has 6 stories with 25 units.

Tours and Excursions: The historic gateway to America, Manhattan's Lower East Side is home to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. In the 19th century, millions of European immigrants poured into New York Harbor. A tour of the Tenement at 97 Orchard Street illustrates the way of life for many of these new arrivals. All tours begin and end at 108 Orchard Street. Tours are offered daily with the...

Lower Eastside Tenement Museum is located at 103 Orchard St, New York, NY. This business specializes in Museums & Galleries.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum can be found at Orchard St 90. The following is offered: Theater. The entry is present with us since Sep 7, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In New York there are 124 other Theater. An overview can be found here.

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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.

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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.

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