Tenement Museum, New York City

Wonderful experience! We chose the “Finding Home” tour and we were lucky enough to be only my family and I with the guide (amazing by the way, shout-out to you Stefania!) The experience is super interesting and well thought out: by listening to the character’s story each tour is about, we travel in time and learn about an entire community’s evolution = NYC immigration history. I highly recommend visiting the Tenement Museum! The bookshop is amazing too :)

We took the Hard Times 1880 Tenement Tour which was about 1.5 hrs. long. I ended up mixing up our reservations and switching our times twice on the phone but they were very tolerant and helpful, and the staff at the location were great as well. Everything was well organized. The building and tour is just as billed: you get to walk through and see tenement rooms just as they were in the past on a guided tour. The guide was very knowledgeable and interactive. She took the approach of following the lives of 2 residents through their lives as we moved through the rooms of the building. Toward the end I was a little tired of hearing about them but that approach did provide a good way to organize the tour and provide a lot of information. All in all a good opportunity to be entertained with facts and stories about life in New York from the1860s on to modern times.