Social-media users could relate to the sentiment in the viral post, with one user saying, "this is familiar to me." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 35 years, the Lower East Side's Tenement Museum has hewn to a strict methodology for its historical exhibits: It recreates the lives and apartments of families who actually lived in its two ...

The Tenement Museum Union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the Lower East Side museum, accusing its leadership of unfair labor practices. The complaint was filed ...

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 ...

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 ...