Located in the neighborhood it honors, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum offers a major slice of immigrant life near the turn of the century. The museum is a hands-on, living showcase of life among Jewish, Italian and African-American immigrants. You are shown around by a costumed interpreter who greets you as if you were newly arrived immigrants and shows you how to adapt to a new life in America. Every item in the apartments is true to the period, and kids are allowed to touch, pick up, and examine whatever they like; a major plus for those who get bored at stuffier exhibits. Kids whose ancestors were, at one time, immigrants will learn about their own families’ pasts.
Contact no: (212) 982-8420
Location: 108 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
Learn more here.