Opening in 1992, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a restored 1863 six-story brick tenement building at 97 Orchard Street that was home to an estimated 7,000 working class immigrants up to around 1935.
The museum strives to recreate immigrant life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Along with a glimpse of the past, tours offer insights into current debates about immigration and public health.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is only available by guided tour.
Tenement tours visit different restored apartments within the building. No tour encompasses the entire building. Rather, each tour focuses on a particular floor and theme.
There are four different tours you can take, each lasting around an hour. There are discounts if you book more than one of the tours. (NOTE the tour starts at the museum shop at 108 Orchard Street, not 97!)
Visit the homes of German-Jewish & Italian Catholic families surviving the Panic of 1873 and the Great Depression; See the homes & garment shop of Jewish families who lived in the tenement during the “great wave” of immigration to America; Visit the 1869 home of the Moores, Irish immigrants coping with the death of a child; Meet Victoria Confino, a teen-age, Sephardic-Jewish immigrant played by a costumed interpreter. Set during 1916.
In the Museum Shop, visitors can see a complimentary video about the history of immigration in America.
Opening Hours
Daily: First tour 11am; last tour around 5pm
Twilight Thursdays: Last tour at 7:15pm
Prices
Adults $17
Address
108 Orchard Street
Located 2 doors south of Delancey, the Museum Shop is where tours starts.
Tel: 212-982-8420
How to Get There
Take Subway B or D to Grand Street
or F to Delancey Street or the J, M or Z to Essex Street
External Links
Official Site
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