Tenement Museum, New York

About Tenement Museum

Tenement Museum preserves the homes and stories of immigrant families who lived in Lower East Side tenements, offering guided apartment and walking tours through restored spaces. Visitors step inside restored apartments like 8A, home to Jewish Holocaust survivors and Puerto Rican migrants in the 1950s and 1960s, and 3A, which housed Schneider's saloon during the Civil War. Walking tours such as W1 explore how neighborhood spaces—stores, parks, movie theaters, schools—shaped community life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. W3 traces Black history from the 1640s through the 1970s. The museum also hosts specialty programs including live podcast events with historians. New York teachers receive free admission on Sundays with code TEACHNY and valid school ID. Visitors with disabilities can obtain free entry for their care partners upon request.