For Educators

At the Tenement Museum, we strive to support learning by helping students draw inspiration from the distant and recent past. Here – and on our dedicated teacher hub - you’ll find a variety of Tenement Museum educator resources for in-person and virtual instruction – including lesson plans, digital exhibits, and more information on how to visit us - virtually or in-person.
 
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Plan a Virtual Field Trip

Visit the Tenement Museum and discover how tenement families in the 19th and 20th centuries lived on New York’s vibrant Lower East Side.

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Browse Lesson Plans

With Tenement Museum resources, students become historians, using our teacher-tested lesson plans.

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Explore Digital Collections

Visit the Tenement Museum’s interactive, digital exhibits, which provide a fascinating, in-depth historical look at life in the area.

 

K-12 School Group Visits & Resevations

The Tenement Museum offers specialized 1-hour programs for all students grades K-12 – whether they’re exploring the museum’s historic tenements and surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood in person or virtually. Hands-on, student-centered programs explore themes of im/migration and include a visit to a restored apartment or the local neighborhood.Learn more about how to plan a school visit.

Lesson Plans

With Tenement Museum resources, students become historians. Using our teacher-tested lesson plans, students engage in inquiry and learn to use critical thinking to interpret objects, oral histories, and primary sources while making history relevant to today.Our classroom resources support multi-state History-Social Studies and English Language Arts curricula and can be used with or without a museum visit.Be sure to check out our new comprehensive suite of virtual field trips and sign up for our monthly teacher’s newsletter for tips from other teachers, event and webinar information, new resources, and more!

 
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Your Story, Our Story

All students are experts of their own experiences and their stories belong in museums! Your Story, Our Story, a national storytelling project, offers students a chance to be included in the historic record and connect their experiences to those of others, to better understand the role of ordinary people in shaping the past, present, and future of our society. Students write and share a personal story, told through an object or tradition important to their identity. View the Digital Experience.

 
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Museum's Online Collections

The Tenement Museum online photo archive contains thousands of images for teaching and exploring: try searching terms like “Lower East Side” or “Street Scene” or click “Random Images” for a surprise assortment.

Last updated: February 23, 2023

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Contact Info

Mailing Address:

103 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

Phone:

877 975-3786

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