Tenement Museum in New York City is a deeply moving cultural institution that tells the stories of immigrant life on the Lower East Side through meticulously restored apartments and immersive guided tours. Housed in a former tenement building at 97 Orchard Street that was home to thousands of working-class families from the 1860s through the 1930s, the museum uses real personal narratives to explore themes of migration, resilience and community. Visitors can walk through period rooms reconstructed with historic artifacts and hear first-hand accounts of the people who lived there, gaining a powerful, human-centered understanding of the diverse experiences that shaped American urban life. The Tenement Museum also offers educational programs, special exhibitions and neighborhood walks that expand on the social and cultural history of immigration in the United States.
