Tenement Museum Announces New Tour Series

On tours of the restored, late 19th-century tenement apartments at the The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, visitors often have the most questions about the bedroom, which were usually no more than 80-square-feet and shared by both parents and children. Where did everyone sleep? When did they have sex? What type of birth control did women have access to in the late 19th century? Why call a midwife instead of a doctor?

To answer those burning questions in more depth, The Tenement Museum will host a new evening series offering an intimate look at what happened in the tiny tenement bedrooms, the setting for sex, childbirth, prostitution, and more.

On the educator guided, 90-minute tours, visitors will tour restored bedrooms and discover how ideas around women's health and women's bodies changed over time, and how those changes influenced the immigrant families of the Lower East Side.

The Tenement Museum tells the story of American immigration, the core of our continually evolving American identity and a central part of today's national conversation. Personal stories of immigrant families allow visitors to encounter immigration as an essential force in shaping this country and to absorb how much our open society, democratic institutions, cultural creativity, and economic vitality owe to our experience as a nation of immigrants.

Established in 1988, the Tenement Museum has become one of New York City's preeminent cultural and educational institutions, welcoming more than 238,000 visitors, including 55,000 students, in 2016. Its two historic tenements on Orchard Street were home to an estimated 15,000 people from more than 20 nations between 1863 and 2000, and represent the heart of the Museum. Educators guide visitors through restored apartments and retail spaces in the buildings and the surrounding neighborhood, and help them understand how immigrants weathered hard times and built new lives.

Wednesday, October 18th
Wednesday, November 8th
Wednesday, December 13th
6:30-8:00pm
Tenement Museum 103 Orchard Street at Delancey New York, NY 10002
Price: $25
Web: http://tenement.org/events-new.php