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Tenement Museum
Opening hours
- Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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1863 preserved tenement building brings Lower East Side immigrant stories to life with guided tours.via Google
Immersive, guided-only tours of preserved historic apartments that tell the real stories of immigrant families.
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- €€€, booking several weeks in advance is essential
Reviews from Google
We just visited the Tenement Museum for the second time (about 12 years apart) and thought it was amazing. Our guide Jared was wonderful and brought lots of energy and detail to our tour. We did Tour 8A, which included stories of two families, Jewish Holocaust survivors and their two daughters, and a Puerto Rican couple and their two sons, who had occupied the apartment over six decades. I read some reviews that were critical of the fact that visitors are not allowed to do self-guided tours. That would be impossible in such small spaces that have been curated so accurately to reflect the time periods that the tenement building was occupied.
I thoroughly enjoyed our tour of 2A. Brian was a fantastic guide, incredibly knowledgable about the story of the Tenement and the wider American historical context of the period, as well as the Moore family who our tour focused on. A must visit on a trip to the City!
The tour was very educational and informative. The guide was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic. It was a little difficult for our kids (11 and 15 years old) to keep standing and paying attention to the tour guide, but for the most part they were able to stay engaged in the tour.
Really cool place and history lesson. I did the tour about the Moore "irish" family. Our tour guide was really amazing and knowledgeable. I can't wait to visit this museum again. ******WARNING - to see the apartment you will have to climb stairs to the 4th floor NO elevators.
Must do. There are multiple tours, we did Under 1 Roof, will come back for more. Follows families who lived there at different points in time. apartments lovingly preserved authentically from contact with living relatives. Fascinating to see how immigrants lived in the times represented. the tour we did was during Progressive era, middle 29s and 30s. Don't sleep on this. Real taste of early NYC history.