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Tenement Museum vs The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Both are praised by expert writers. On balance, Tenement Museum is preferred by most professionals compared to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tenement Museum comes in at #6 in New York City with recommendations from 10 reviewers such as Lonely Planet, Afar Magazine and Frommer's.
Tenement Museum
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103 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City, NY 10002
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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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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."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1000 Fifth AvenueA, New York City, NY 10028-0198
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Fodor's
"If Manhattan held no other museum than the colossal Metropolitan Museum of Art, you could still occupy yourself for days roaming its labyrinthine corridors."
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Concierge
"You could spend weeks here admiring the collections."
Frommer's
"Home of blockbuster after blockbuster, the Metropolitan Museum of Art attracts some five million people a year, more than any other spot in New York City."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This sprawling encyclopedic museum, founded in 1870, houses one of the biggest art collections in the world."
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If you can’t stand crowds, avoid weekends.
Travel + Leisure
"One of the world's great museums, this Gothic Revival labyrinth tries to be all things to all art lovers—and with its expansion over the past two decades it often succeeds."
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