Lower East Side Tenement Museum

This gets RAVE reviews from people who have been there. The reviewers frequently say that they hadn't been all that enthusiastic about going, but were extremely happy that they'd gone.

I've listed the tours - but for more general information about the museum, go here:

<http://www.tenement.org/about.html>.

We offer guided tours of the tenement at 97 Orchard Street & the Lower East Side.

Tickets are required for public tours. We recommend purchasing advance tickets.

Fanny Rogarshevsky

Celebrate the 1897 birth of Max Levine in the apartment/garment shop run by his parents, Jennie and Harris from Poland. Then pay a shiva (bereavement) call to the Rogarshevsky family, mourning the loss of their father, Abraham, who worked as a presser in a garment factory until succumbing to tuberculosis in 1918. 

This tour is suitable for children 8 years & older. 

Length: Approximately 1 hour

Tickets Adults: $17 Students: $13 Seniors: $13 Members: Free Buy Tickets

Tour Times Regular Hours (year-round): Tues-Fri: Every 40 minutes beginning at 1:20, last tour at 5:00 Sat & Sun: Every 30 minutes beginning at 11:15, last tour at 4:45  Mondays: No public tours

Natalie Gumpertz

Visit the apartments of the German-Jewish Gumpertz family in the 1870s and the Sicilian-Catholic Baldizzi family in the 1930s, and learn about the networks of support that were available to them during hard times. Discuss the development of social welfare in the United States, and compare the options that people had in the past to those that are available today. 

This tour is suitable for children 8 years & older. 

Length: Approximately 1 hour.

Tickets Adults: $17 Students: $13 Seniors: $13 Members: Free Buy Tickets

Tour Times Regular Hours (year-round): Tues-Fri: Every 40 minutes beginning at 1:00; last tour at 4:45 Sat & Sun: Every 30 minutes beginning at 11:00, last tour at 4:30 Mondays: No public tours

Victoria Confino, upper right, and friends

Perfect for kids and families, this "living history" apartment is based on the Sephardic-Jewish Confino family from Kastoria (once part of the Ottoman Empire, now in Greece). A costumed interpreter dressed as teenage Victoria Confino circa 1916 welcomes visitors as though they were newly arrived immigrants, teaching them how to adapt to America. The Confino tour is a hands-on experience and visitors can touch any items in the apartment.

This tour is suitable for children 5 years and older. 

Length: Approximately 1 hour.

Tickets Adults: $17 Students: $13 Seniors: $13 Members: Free Buy Tickets

Tour Times Regular Hours (year-round) Sat & Sun: 1, 2 & 3pm