Accessibility at the Museum

The Tenement Museum welcomes all visitors. Nosotros recognize the diverse needs of our audience and offer accessible programs and services to enable all visitors to explore the stories nosotros interpret at the Tenement Museum.

For questions about Museum accessibility and how we can accommodate your specific needs, call 646-518-3041 or e-mail [email protected] .

  • Accessibility and COVID-19
  • Getting to the Museum
  • At the Visitor Center
  • Web Accessibility

Membership | The Tenement Museum offers a special $65 membership for visitors with disabilities. For a discounted membership, please call our membership line 646-518-3007.

Gratis entry to care partners | Regardless of Museum membership status, all visitors with disabilities can obtain free entry for their care partners. Please call 646-518-3041 or electronic mail [e-mail protected] to request free entry for a care partner.

Service Beast Policy | Service dogs are welcome on all museum tours. Nonetheless, pets and emotional support animals are not allowed inside our tenement buildings, simply can exist brought on outdoor neighborhood walking tours.

Accessibility and COVID-19

Recommended Tours

Tours and guided experiences are the merely ways to admission our celebrated buildings. These often include small, low-lit  spaces. If you have difficulties in small spaces,  please call 646-518-4041 or due east-postal service [email protected] for recommendations.

Wheelchair Accessible Tours

Explore the stories of the Saez Velez and Wong families in the 1960s and 1970s.

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In our newest walking bout, discover what drew Black New Yorkers to Lower Manhattan, and how their experiences were shaped past that migration.

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Visit the tenement homes of the Epstein and Saez Velez families in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Grand Street Guild and Saint Marys Church

Explore the compages of the Lower Due east Side to notice how people and communities have shaped the streetscape over the terminal 200 years.

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Historic photo of the Forward Building on the Lower East Side

Step into the by and walk in the footsteps of immigrants to discover the neighborhood landmarks of their lives on the Lower East Side.

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The Museum has a limited amount of wheelchairs available to infringe for wheelchair attainable programs. To reserve a wheelchair for your visit, please phone call our Phone call Center at ane-877-975-3786  (Mon–Saturday: 9 am–five pm) or electronic mail [email protected]

Individuals who are Bullheaded or have Depression Vision

Handling objects are available for our Hard Times, Finding Home, Nether One Roof, and Day in the Life tours. Ask for these materials when you arrive at the Visitors Center.

Visitors can volume a free tactile orientation to the Museum before their tour with 2 weeks' accelerate notice. Please contact the states to schedule at [e-mail protected]  or 646-518-4041

Individuals who are Deaf or take Hearing Loss

Assistive Listening Devices

The Museum offers FM assistive listening devices upon request for all tours and evening programming. Inquire a representative at the Visitors Center upon arrival.

Induction Loops

Portions of the Hard Times, Finding Habitation, and Under One Roof tours include audio-visual elements equipped with induction loops.

Mask Policy

Visitors will exist required to wear face coverings while taking an indoor edifice tour and visiting our Museum Store, only they are optional on our walking tours. If a visitor has scheduled an indoor building tour but is unable to wearable a mask, face roofing, or face up shield due to a inability, they will be given the following options as reasonable accommodations as alternatives to taking an in-person tour:

  • Accept an available scheduled walking tour
  • Take a scheduled virtual programme in the future
  • Schedule a individual virtual bout for a future date

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Virtual Experiences

The Tenement Museum offers a slate of digital programs. You can learn more almost these at our Virtual Events folio.

We are committed to increasing the accessibility of these virtual programs. Accommodations are available for all of our virtual programs. To request accessibility accommodations, please e-mail us at [email protected] with a minimum of two weeks' discover.

We are also hosting a small number of accessibility focused programs. For more data and to be placed on our invite listing for these programs, please contact u.s.a. at [email protected].

Getting to the Museum

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The Delancey-Essex F/J/One thousand/Z station has no elevator. The uptown F platform has an escalator to exit to the street. The nearest wheelchair accessible subway station is B/D/F/M/6 to Broadway-Lafayette Street.

At the Museum

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The Visitors Eye is equipped with universally designed elevators and restrooms on the basement level.