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Watch Past Events
Virtual Tenement Talks
Livestreamed from inside our recreated historic tenement apartments, these conversations invite historians, scholars, authors, and our Tenement Museum community to explore the deeper questions of our mission.
Clairvoyant Housewives of the Lower East Side
Chinatown: 9/11 and the End of an Industry
Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments
Tastemakers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Foods of the Lower East Side
Our food programming, from book talks to workshops, serves to strengthen the connection between food and our histories.
A Nickel for a Pickle: A Pickle Lesson with the Tenement Museum
Virtual Book Talk: Mango and Peppercorns
Virtual Book Talk: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families
Stories of New York
These programs discuss the vibrant, complicated, diverse, and unique stories that make up New York – past and present.
Virtual Tenement Talk: The African Family Experience in Early New Amsterdam
Everyday Chinatown: Stories of Ordinary Artifacts
A Journey to Freedom
Family Events and Hands-On Activities
Geared towards children, these programs use arts & crafts and storytelling to help families engage with the past.
Capturing History: Create a Time Capsule
Working from Home in 1905: Making Paper Flowers
DIY Toys and Games of the Past and Present
Book Talks
Our book talks allow us to engage with authors discussing a wide array of immigrant and New York City history.
Chinatown Pretty
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902
A is for Asylum Seeker
Objects of Comfort
Part of the Your Story, Our Story collection, Objects of Comfort highlight the objects that hold the stories, passed down through the generations, that illustrate our ancestor’s resilience through hardship and bring us comfort during difficult times.
Objects of Comfort from the Tenement Museum
Korie’s Object of Comfort
Mengshu’s Object of Comfort
Watch: “Rebuild, Retell, Renew” 2021 Virtual Gala Film
What’s the Tenement Museum planning next?
Get a sneak peek of our new permanent exhibit exploring Black history in Lower Manhattan and a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing stabilization of our historic tenement buildings.