The museum has shared the stories of immigrants and migrants who lived in New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries for nearly four decades. For the first time, a Black family’s apartment will be ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. The new version can be seen here. For many of us, staycations are this year’s vacations. Instead of the cottages and castles of the Continent, visit one of ...

The recreated tenement room where Rachel and Joseph Moore slept (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) In 1863, 25- and 35-year-old Black New Yorkers Rachel and Joseph Moore moved into a tenement at Lower ...

Built in 1863, 97 Orchard Street wasn’t intended to be a museum. It was tenement—a multi-family residential building built by a German immigrant with the intention to house the ever-growing population ...

(RNS) — The series aims to help visitors understand religious traditions and holidays as practiced by 19th- and 20th-century immigrants. NEW YORK (RNS) — The Tenement Museum in Manhattan’s Lower East ...