Under One Roof Tenement Museum

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Under one roof tenement museum.

New tour at tenement museum under one roof see 6 553 traveler reviews 399 candid photos and great deals for new york city ny at tripadvisor. Under one roof see 6 553 traveler reviews 399 candid photos and great deals for new york city ny at tripadvisor. We share stories of the immigrant and migrant experience through immersive guided tours educational content and programs and thought leadership with one important goal to advance the understanding of immigration and to highlight. They ve recovered and restored a 150 year old tenement building and there are different tours that take place on different floors of the building.

Visit the homes of bella epstein whose parents built a new life on the lower east side after the holocaust jose and andy velez whose mother left puerto rico for garment work and the wong siblings whose stories of their mother and other garment workers are highlighted in an interactive recreated chinatown garment shop. Under one roof at nyc s tenement museum. Lower east side tenement museum 103 orchard street new york ny 10002 telephone. Under one roof carries the immigration story into the present with the experiences of newcomers who settled on the lower east side after world war ii.

1 877 975 3786 the call center is open mon sat. The tenement museum celebrates the enduring stories that define and strengthen what it means to be american. Under one roof discover stories of lower east side arrivals who lived at 103 orchard street in the 1950s through the 1980s and worked in the neighborhood s garment industry. A storyteller s society only virtual tour of under one roof which tells the stories of immigrants migrants and refugees in the 20th century.

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