Under One Roof Tour Tenement
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Under one roof tour tenement. Go behind the scenes at the tenement museum for an in depth architectural experience. With immigration dominating the national conversation the tenement museum presents a new permanent exhibit under one roof that immerses visitors in the lives of three immigrant and migrant families from different corners of the world china puerto rico and poland who all lived in the same new york city apartment building during the 1950s to 1970s. Under one roof tour see 6 551 traveler reviews 399 candid photos and great deals for new york city ny at tripadvisor. The other areas of the building are cooled using fans.
The museum shop and visitor center theater and the classrooms and private event spaces at 103 orchard street. The tenement museum is partially air conditioned. The following spaces programs are air conditioned. A storyteller s society only virtual tour of under one roof which tells the stories of immigrants migrants and refugees in the 20th century.
Tenement museum become a member donate. Presented as a series of photographs video interviews and primary source documents. The victoria confino tour. 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 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.
Under one roof tenement museum following the tenement museum s tradition of bringing the story of immigration to life through the lens of real people under one roof describes the experiences of three families who lived and worked in new york s lower east side. These contemporary stories of migration reveal an evolving american identity and explore how neighbors lived alongside one another in a mixed neighborhood like the. The apartments they grew up in between the 1950s and 1970s have been recreated as the newest exhibit in the tenement museum called under one roof it confronts the fact that immigration is and. Explore an entire tenement building in one tour.