The Museum's historic tenement is not wheelchair accessible. However, there are a number of options for visitors with mobility impairments.
The Museum's Visitors Center includes a universal designed entrance, bathroom and counter to accommodate visitors using wheelchairs.
The Lower East Side Walking Tour is available Saturday and Sundays at 12:45 and 2:45, April through December.
The Walking Tour is also available to groups of 10 or more by appointment.
If you are unable to visit the Museum or to access our tenement building, our website features a Virtual Tour of the tenement at 97 Orchard St.
For groups of 10 or more we will send a museum educator for an off-site visit. Please call our Group Scheduling Associate, (212)431-0233, ext. 241, for more information or email groups(at)tenement.org.
Educator-led programs held in the accessible Visitors Center are available by appointment. For more information, call our Education Coordinator, (212)431-0233, ext. 240 or email signlanguage(at)tenement.org.
Questions: Call our Education Coordinator at 212-431-0233, x. 240, TTY at (212) 431-0714, or e-mail signlanguage(at)tenement.org.
The Confino Apartment is a hands-on program that offers unlimited touching opportunities as well as verbal interaction with a costumed interpreter. Advance tickets are available and strongly recommended.
Groups of 5 or more can arrange touch and verbal description tours for the Getting By and Piecing it Together tours. These descriptive narrative tours allow visitors to handle artifacts and reproductions of building details.
To schedule reservations for group touch tours, call 212-431-0233 x.240 or e-mail groups(at)tenement.org
To schedule reservations for group touch tours, call 212-431-0233 x.240 or e-mail groups(at)tenement.org
Braille museum brochures are available and can be obtained at the Visitors Center or by emailing signlanguage(at)tenement.org.
Large print materials are available for most programs. Ask for these materials at the Visitor Center.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted tours of the Tenement Museum are available to the public on the first Sunday of every month. Reservations are strongly suggested.
Private ASL interpreted tours are available to groups of 10 or more by request.
More information: call (212) 431-0233 x.240, TTY (212) 431-0714 or email signlanguage(at)tenement.org
More information: call (212) 431-0233 x.240, TTY (212) 431-0714 or email signlanguage(at)tenement.org
Portable FM systems with head sets or neck loops are available at the Visitors Center. The media program on The Moores: An Irish Family in America is equipped with a T-coil compatible induction loop.
Videos shown at the Museum are open captioned.
Large print materials are available for most programs. Ask for these materials at the Visitor Center.
