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 Immigrant Soles Neighborhood Walking Tour is available 7 days a week at 2:30 Monday – Friday and 12:30 and 2:30 on Saturday and Sunday.
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.
Assume the role of a new immigrant family in 1916 and virtually “visit” the costumed interpreter portraying 14-year-old Victoria Confino in her tenement apartment via video conferencing. Ask Victoria questions about her family, home, and adjusting to life on the Lower East Side. For more information, visit http://www.cilc.org/search/content-provider-program.aspx?id=2553.
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 Associate at 212-431-0233, x. 232, TTY at (212) 431-0714, or e-mail slitvin@tenement.org.
In honor of Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month this October, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum will offer a touch and verbal
description tour of our newest program, The Moores: An Irish Family in America. Experience the heart of the immigrant saga through
the music of Irish America, then tour the restored home of the Moore family, Irish-Catholic immigrants coping with the death of a child
in 1869. Compare the Moore's struggle to keep their family healthy with that of the Katz family, Russian-Jewish immigrants who left their
“mark” on our building in the 1930s. The 1.5 hour tour will begin at the Museum’s Visitor Center at 108 Orchard Street at 2:45 p.m. on
Sunday, October 18th. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. Visit the Tenement Museum’s website
at www.tenement.org for more information. To attend, RSVP by Wednesday, October 14th to Sarah Litvin,
Education Associate for Living History and Access at Slitvin@tenement.org
Thursday, October 29, 6-7:30 PM
Explore the Tenement Museum with an ASL guide. This sign language tour will be Getting By: Immigrants Weathering Hard Times. You will visit the restored homes of German-Jewish Gumpertz family, who lived through the Panic of 1873, and the Italian-Catholic Baldizzi family, who survived the 20th century's Great Depression. Please note: the tour is only for those who speak ASL - there will be no spoken English translation.
Explore the Tenement Museum with an ASL guide. This sign language tour will be Getting By: Immigrants Weathering Hard Times. You will visit the restored homes of German-Jewish Gumpertz family, who lived through the Panic of 1873, and the Italian-Catholic Baldizzi family, who survived the 20th century's Great Depression. Please note: the tour is only for those who speak ASL - there will be no spoken English translation.
November 19, 2009
Enjoy an event in our series with real time open captioning. Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and editor will present “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Presen.,” The event will be held at the museum’s Visitors Center at 108 Orchard Street. Her words will be projected onto a large screen behind Ms. Collins. This is a free service and no reservations are required.
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.
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.
