Monthly Archives: February 2011

When I heard that we were going to visit a tenement museum, I did not know what to expect. I thought we would simply be visiting a museum that emulates the characteristics of the conditions of tenements during the influx … Continue reading →

My expectations for the Tenement Museum were very much like everyone else’s, a standard museum with a few exhibits, some informative posters, perhaps a few galleries, and a small theater for viewing a sentimental immigration film. In fact I completely … Continue reading →

        Walking into the Tenement Museum was like walking through a time machine. I would have never expected a tenement apartment building from 1863 to be so well preserved in Manhattan. Our visit started in the museum’s gift shop, which … Continue reading →

Well, Macaulay blog world (a.k.a. Prof. Berger’s CHC class), here I am! When our class visited the Tenement Museum, I really enjoyed acting like a German immigrant. This is probably because I still have a foot in both worlds. I … Continue reading →

Personally, I was excited to go to the Tenement Museum as History is not only one of my favorite subjects, but one of my hobbies outside of school as well. As far as the history of tenement museums, I had … Continue reading →

I really had no idea what to expect when I heard we would be visiting the Tenement Museum. I assumed it would be a regular museum with various exhibits including photos, articles, and primary sources providing information about immigrants coming … Continue reading →

This was my first visit to the Tenement Museum and I enjoyed the trip. The Tenement Museum provided us with a unique museum experience, rather than a tour guide speaking as we looked at artifacts behind glass cases. While the … Continue reading →

After a near 48-hour sleepless stretch in the architecture studios, my visit to the tenement museum was especially convincing. The descriptions the actress playing Victoria Confino gave of how we would have felt after the voyage across the Atlantic all … Continue reading →

I was completely and pleasantly surprised by our trip to the Tenement Museum. Although I knew the building used to be a tenement, I assumed that it would have been completely gutted and refurbished, no more than a land marker. … Continue reading →

I really did not know what to expect from the tenement museum. I figured it would be like any other museum I had ever visited filled with the mementos and keepsakes of those long gone. I never imagined it would … Continue reading →