Museums & galleries · Lower Manhattan
Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum on Orchard Street presents the histories of migrant families who lived in two Lower East Side tenement buildings between the 1860s and the 2000s, seen on guided tours of restored apartments.
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The museum is the building: individual apartments have been restored to the condition of a documented family at a documented date, rather than furnished as a period generality.
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