Museum at Eldridge Street
May 2019
NY Landmarks Conservancy’s Sacred Sites Open House
Museum at Eldridge Street is opening its doors for New York Landmark Conservancy‘s 9th annual Sacred Sites Open House Weekend! Since 2011 congregations throughout New York State have been invited to open their doors so neighbors and tourists can experience first-hand the spectacular art, architecture and history of New York’s religious sites. Visitors can also learn about the crucial social and cultural programming these magnificent religious institutions provide their communities. The Museum is proud to participate once again with free building…
June 2019
History Hunters: A Kid’s Life at Home
Join us at the Tenement Museum for the final installment of our History Hunters series that explores life for Lower East Side kids at the turn-of-the-20th Century. We’ll step into two tenement apartments to learn what life was like for kids in the Levine and Rogarshevsky families. What work did kids do? Where did they find space to play? How did they help their families get by? Then we’ll get creative by making objects out of recycled material, just like kids did one…
