The Tenement Museum
ExperienceLower East Side#38 of 50

The Tenement Museum

New York, New York

Photo: Stephan Grütering

A museum built inside an actual 1863 tenement building at 97 Orchard Street. The guided tours walk you through painstakingly recreated apartments of real immigrant families — Irish, German, Italian, Chinese — who lived here across a century. It's the most intimate, human telling of the American immigration story you'll find anywhere. You will leave changed.

Insider tip

Book the 'Hard Times' or 'Sweatshop Workers' tour. They sell out — reserve online a week in advance.

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