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Tenement Museum vs Ellis Island

Both are praised by professional reviewers. Overall, Tenement Museum is the choice of most professionals compared to Ellis Island. Tenement Museum ranks #6 in New York City with positive reviews from 10 reviews like Time Out, Travel + Leisure and Lonely Planet.

Tenement Museum
Tenement Museum
9 / 10
103 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City, NY 10002
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Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This museum puts the neighborhood’s heartbreaking but inspiring heritage on full display in three recreations of turn-of-the-20th-century tenements." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Searching for a place to house a museum honoring American immigrants, Ruth Abram unearthed 97 Orchard Street." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"This fascinating museum—actually a series of restored tenement apartments at 97 Orchard Street—is accessible only by guided tour." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler 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." Full review
Not For Tourists Not For Tourists
"Great illustration of turn-of-the-century (20th, that is) life."
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island
8 / 10
New York Harbor, New York City, NY 10017
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Fodor's Fodor's
"The island's main building, now a national monument, reopened in 1990 as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which is divided into four major exhibit areas." Full review
Concierge Concierge
"Roughly 12 million immigrants passed through this island as they entered America from the late 1800s through the mid-1950s, sometimes at the rate of thousands a day."
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"See America through the eyes of the 12 million immigrants that entered through Ellis Island." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"Trace the history of U.S. immigration with a visit to the three floors of objects, photographs and interactive displays housed on the famous island next door to Lady Liberty herself." Full review
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Ellis Island is situated about halfway between lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor." Full review
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