Tenement Museum, New York City

Extremely interesting museum. Tour was fascinating and going through the old tenement building dynamite. Very good bookstore and the movie that runs on a loop was very interesting. Would’ve given five stars except the staff working there were kind of snippety and they didn’t allow any photographs in the tenement building tour. Why? I have no idea!

We visited the tenement museum on a Sunday afternoon and it had been recommended by friends. I have to say I was expecting a bit more. We did the 100 years apart tour and whilst the tour guide/educator was excellent and knowledgeable. The actual tenement was underwhelming. We visited 2 tenements, the first tenement was a recreation of another a few buildings down which was a little disappointing. I thought the whole point of it was that it was the exact same tenement. The background of the Prussian family from the educator was interesting. The second tenement was one of which a chinese family had lived in the 70’s. Less interesting for me but perhaps I’m more interested in the early NYC immigrants. Maybe it was the tour or perhaps the lack of rooms we saw but it didn’t really live up to the recommendation.