Plastic Covered Couches. You Can’t Sit There.

If you grew up in a certain era you know the meaning behind the plastic covered…

Day Five: Sewn Together Under One Roof at the Tenement Museum

It may be one of six or so others like it but the Juki sewing machine on one corner of the table linked me to the saga of the Wong family, whose matriarch would have worked in a garment factory similar to the one recreated…

One Just and Verdant Internet of Things

While chilly winds blew on Orchard Street this sunny Friday morning, the most fashionable…

Day 5: Tenement Museum

A theme that has been crystalizing for me over the last couple of days has been the idea of relationships and storytelling through objects in physical space. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum does a fantastic job with their space and using the objects in it.

Preservation vs. Access

Emotion at the Tenement Museum

Today was by far my favorite museum experience thus far. To finish of the last week of our two weeks in NYC we ventured into the Lower East Side to the Tenement Museum. We participated in an interactive tour that depicted the life of three families from the 1950s-2011. The…

Living through it…Object Experience Narrative

One of the most important and effective ways we learn is through experience. Our experiences overtime shape who we are, how we think, and what standpoints we take on certain issues. Sometimes experiences can be manufactured through objects, and…

The New Tenement

The Tenement Museum noticed a discrepancy in their mission and programming. The original building maintained immigrant histories of a…

My Day in NYC: Day 5 The Tenement Museum

On our last trip out this week, we visited the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Though it was smaller than some of the other tours we took, the effect was an extraordinarily rich experience that deserves to be commended.

Day 5— The Tenement Museum and New Inc.

Today we met with education staff from the tenement museum for a tour and Q&A afterwards. The tour was emotional, engaging, and filled with interactive elements that seemed playful and informative.

Week. One. Is. Done.

The Tenement Museum was such a lovely surprise! I had no idea going in that it…

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

While I have visited the 97 Orchard Street location of the Tenement Museum before, touring 103 Orchard was a completely new experience. Walking through the recreated homes of 3 families who lived in the building in the decades after World War II, the museum creates a sense…

Navigating Small Spaces

Upon first entering the Tenement Museum my first observation was how narrow and uneven the floor is. However, I was…