This was the best museum experience I have ever had! It is beyond interactive! As a Native New Yorker living in Chicago, too bad the Tenement Museum.
A place where you can walk around in history. Thoughtful and thought provoking exhibits about hardworking people and their situations and spaces.
Had reserved tickets for a tour this weekend, but the "bomb cyclone" forced the airline to cancel our flight. The Tenement Museum, despite having.
Join us on St. Patrick's Day for a special tour series! In the 19th century, the St. Patrick's Day Parade was an opportunity for Irish immigrant to unite. At a time when the Irish faced much discrimination, parents like Joseph and Bridget Moore could use the holiday and its festivities to instill...
Rashidah Ismaili, a celebrated poet, playwright, and essayist, lived and worked for many years on the Lower East Side. Now based in Harlem, she was part of the burgeoning Black Arts Movement downtown in the late 1960s, when Black artists, writers, musicians, and poets fashioned a new, global...
From strikers to politicos, from advocates to activists, the Lower East Side women have a long history of leading movements for social, cultural, and political change. On #InternationalWo mensDay, revisit our digital exhibit TENEMENT WOMEN: AGENTS OF CHANGEhttps:// www.tenement.org / tenement-women-a gents-of-change /
See how immigrant families balanced their traditions with working outside the home at garment factories across the… https://t.co/zJJlzZG2Kn
A focal point of the Saez-Velez family living room was the TV. José remembers hooking up the tv to a "little box" i… https://t.co/iQpHefhP9t
Join us on April 29 for our first ever virtual gala! By hosting this event online, we are able to open this evening… https://t.co/GcWrFsbpT4
In partnership with @AICHNYC, we are highlighting five Native artists whose work reflects both their histories and… https://t.co/c9ahnT9wod
Nearly a decade after the landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, a system of de facto segregation still pl… https://t.co/IX4sQ8nbCV
In NYC’s Chinatown, #LunarNewYear is usually a bustling time for tourists and locals alike. The streets are typica… https://t.co/wxoVGZFQk7
The 1950s saw the largest influx of Puerto Ricans moving to the US, where they faced both challenges and opportunit… https://t.co/mrFvtM5ib5