Tenement Museum
11 expert reviews
“Searching for a place to house a museum honoring American immigrants, Ruth Abram unearthed 97 Orchard Street.”
– Travel + Leisure
Fodor's
"This is America's first urban living-history museum dedicated to the life of immigrants."
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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."
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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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Frommer's
"This museum is the first-ever National Trust for Historic Preservation site that was not the home of someone rich or famous."
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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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