Exhibits In The Windows of 97 Orchard Street - 0 views
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jbdrury on 06 Nov 09This tab gives you information on school tours if you can make it to NYC with a class; in addition, it has tabs for different interactive tours that are available centering on different historical families and their varying ethnic backgrounds.
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This tab is incredible. It links to a number of online resources, including: lesson plans for different age levels, a wealth of primary documents dealing with immigration to the city and others.
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The tours of these apartments are added to by the telling of the stories of the actual families that lived in these tenements, representing a good representative mix of the ethnicites immigrating to the U.S. at the time.
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This is the link to the virtual online tour of one of their tenement exhibits. It gives you a virtual walk-through (using photos) of the tiny, cramped spaces that multiple families sometimes had to squeeze into in order to survive in turn-of-the-century NYC.
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It includes an audio and video tour as well, taking you step-by-step as you move through the museum.
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This is the official website of the Tenement Museum in NYC. I LOVE this museum, and if you have yet to have seen it, I highly recommend visiting the next time you are in the city. I have added this page mostly because of the "virtual tour" you can take of one of their tenements, which could be used as a resource for teachers who cannot take students there in person. They also have a number of primary document lesson plans available for different age ranges. Their exhibits are revealing of the lives led by immigrants in late 19th and early 20th century New York City.
