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For Visitors With Mobility Impairments
The Museum's historic tenement is not wheelchair accessible. However, there are a number of options for visitors with mobility impairments.

Accessible Visitors Center
Wheelchair Accessible Programs The Museum's Visitors Center includes a universal designed entrance, bathroom and counter to accommodate visitors using wheelchairs.

 

Neighborhood Walking Tours
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.

Virtual Tour
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.

Offsite Visits
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 in the Visitor Center
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.


For Visitors Who Are Blind Or Have Low Vision
Public Touch Tours
Public Touch Tours
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.

 

Group Touch and Verbal Description Tours
Public Touch Tours

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

 

Braille Brochures Are Available At the Visitors Center
Braille Brochures Are AvailableLarge Print Materials Available Upon Request

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.
 

 
For Visitors Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted Tours
American Sign Language Interpreted Tours Available At The Tenement MuseumAmerican 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

 

Assistive Listening Devices
Assistive Listening Devices Are Available At the Tenement Museum's Visitors 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.

 

Captioning
Open Captioning Available On All Videos at the Tenement Museum

Videos shown at the Museum are open captioned.

 

Large Print Materials
Large Print Materials Available Upon Request Large print materials are available for most programs. Ask for these materials at the Visitor Center.

 
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