The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a window into the past, walking us through life as it was for more than 7,000 immigrants in the years between 1863 and 1935. They came from more than 20 nations ...

Tucked on the Lower East Side, just blocks from the Williamsburg Bridge, the Tenement Museum embodies and represents the history of how New York as we know it came to be. Housed at 97 Orchard Street, ...

Annie Polland argues that studying our humble roots teaches us what really makes American history exceptional.

Photo courtesy of the Tenement Museum. At the Tenement Museum’s new permanent exhibition, Under One Roof, the lives of three immigrant families intersect in a single building on the Lower East Side.

The Tenement Museum in New York City offers visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience what life was like for immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A tourist ...

The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East Side kicked off a “Lived Religion” series on Sept. 22 by immersing visitors into the High Holidays celebrations and shared apartments of 20th-century ...

The Tenement Museum, a New York City icon that found itself in severe financial straits during the coronavirus pandemic, has named a new president. Dr. Annie Polland, the first woman to lead the ...

Located at 97 and 103 Orchard St. in Manhattan, the Tenement Museum is devoted to telling the stories of 19th and 20th-century immigrants who inhabited the building, allowing visitors to take a step ...

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The Tenement Museum, located in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood, has for decades attempted to tell the true stories of immigrants nestling into America’s most populous city during the ...