Visitors who love connecting with the past in the Museum's restored tenement apartments will also love Home Economics, located at 90 Orchard Street (where the Visitors Center used to be).

With much of the historic fabric of this space intact, including a 14-foot wooden countertop that has been in the building since the early 1900s, the shop is designed like a three-room tenement apartment, with living room furniture displayed in a "parlor" area, kitchen furniture and implements displayed in the "kitchen," and children's cribs and other bedroom items in the "bedroom." A "hygiene area" (there were no bathrooms in the individual apartments of 97 Orchard Street) features soaps, lotions and herbal remedies.

Pam Keech, the Museum's installation curator and designer for its restored apartments, along with contractor Nicholas Prince, have used reproductions of antique wallpaper, old fashioned wood stains, and an antique front door to create a shop that will give present-day visitors and shoppers a new way to connect with the past.