A Russian fortune teller, a German saloon owner, and an Irish family of ten are just a few former residents of 97 Orchard Street. Built in 1863, the Orchard Street tenement was home to generations of ...

How do you turn a five-floor walk-up that is mostly in ruins into a museum? Preserve it as it was found? Restore its original form? Recreate it to a specific moment in time? The answer is yes to all ...

The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side kicked off a “Lived Religion” series on Sept. 22 by immersing visitors into the High Holidays celebrations and shared apartments of 20th-century ...

Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and 20th-century immigrants who inhabited the building, allowing visitors to take a step ...

Visitors can explore the Black migrant experience in post-Civil War era New York City through a 75-minute guided, multimedia tour. Calling all museum-goers! On Feb. 1, the Tenement Museum in Lower ...

The Tenement Museum, a New York City icon that found itself in severe financial straits during the coronavirus pandemic, has named a new president. Dr. Annie Polland, the first woman to lead the ...

The once-in-a-lifetime construction project strengthened the 160-year-old building – protecting original features and finishes and comprehensively supporting the building’s ongoing use for the safety ...

The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A tourist ...