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Brooklyn Museum vs Tenement Museum
Both are rated highly by professional travelers. On balance, Tenement Museum scores marginally better than Brooklyn Museum. Tenement Museum scores 94 with endorsements from 10 reviewers such as Michelin Guide, Frommer's and Condé Nast Traveler.
Brooklyn Museum
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200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238
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Fodor's
"Although it may be overshadowed by the big name museums in Manhattan, the Brooklyn Museum, with more than 1 million pieces in its permanent collection."
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Concierge
"This Beaux Arts building houses the second-largest permanent collection in the city, with more than a million objects."
Lonely Planet
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"This encyclopedic museum is housed in a five-story, 560,000-sq-ft beaux arts building designed by McKim, Mead & White."
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Travel + Leisure
"With a mission to bridge the artistic heritage of world cultures, this 560,000-square-foot museum built in grand Beaux-Arts style houses a large, diverse collection of 1.5 million works."
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Time Out
"Brooklyn’s premier institution is a less-crowded alternative to Manhattan’s bigger-name spaces."
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Tenement Museum
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103 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City, NY 10002
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Lonely Planet
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"This museum puts the neighborhood’s heartbreaking but inspiring heritage on full display in three recreations of turn-of-the-20th-century tenements."
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Travel + Leisure
"Searching for a place to house a museum honoring American immigrants, Ruth Abram unearthed 97 Orchard Street."
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Time Out
"This fascinating museum—actually a series of restored tenement apartments at 97 Orchard Street—is accessible only by guided tour."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Offers a glimpse of what life in the turn-of-the-20th-century Lower East Side was like for those who lived there."
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Not For Tourists
"Great illustration of turn-of-the-century (20th, that is) life."
