The museum is housed in a restored tenement building on the Lower East Side, and each tour takes visitors through the meticulously recreated apartments and businesses of real families who lived ...

Hidden away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the New York Tenement Museum tells the tale of thousands of Irish families that sailed from Ireland to the United States in search of a better life.

To truly understand the Lower East Side and all of its history and importance, you must visit the Tenement Museum. This unique museum preserves two historic tenement addresses—97 and 103 Orchard ...