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.
Created for those who are blind or with low vision, touch tours provide handling objects and extensive descriptive narration. Sunday, September 12 at 4:45 PM
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.
Sunday, November 7 at 4 PM
Confino Family Living History Program: Visit the home of Victoria Confino and learn how her Sephardic-Jewish family adapted to life on the Lower East Side.
A deaf educator will lead these tours. There will be no spoken English translation.
Sunday, October 17 at 4:30 PM
Getting By: Explore how two immigrant families survived two economic depressions.
Sunday, December 12 at 4:45 PM
Piecing it Together: Learn how immigrants made a life for themselves on the economic margins of the garment industry.
These Tenement Talks will be captioned in real time with the text projected onto a large screen behind the speaker as he/she speaks.
Check back soon for a list of open-captioned Tenement Talks in Fall 2010
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.
Combine any of our tenement tours with handling objects, verbal imaging and an architectural model of 97 Orchard. For Visitors with Visual Impairments
The Tenement Museum’s deaf educator, Alexandria Wailes, is available to lead group tours with advanced notice. If you have a group of five or more individuals, you can schedule a group tour by contacting our Visitor Services Coordinator. Alexandria also leads quarterly ASL tours with no voice interpretation for the public. Check this website for upcoming public ASL tours.
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.
