Tenant Museum Research Paper

The Tenant Museum

My fascinating visit to The Tenement Museum, located in the lower Eastside of Manhattan. My first visit to the museum was via Web. I surfed the site in hopes purchasing my ticket before my class site visit for Saturday. As I searched for a ticket, it allowed me an opportunity to check out the tours and find out what the museum was all about. When I entered the date of my upcoming class visit, most tours were already sold out. There are three ways to visit and tour at the museum. You can take a tour, tour a remodeled replica of an apartment or businesses from different time periods, Meet the residents is a tour and interaction with an interpreter dressed in costume from that time period. There are also outside tours , touring the neighborhood with a tour guide filling you in on the immigrants struggle to …show more content…
Smith the tour guide. The film showed Victoria Confino’s journey from what was then Turkey in a town called Kastoria. There were photos of her family and the ships that brought them into Ellis Island. Once the film commenced we all exited that room an entered the hallway. A very narrow hallway, Mr. Smith pointed out the Burlap covered walls, old electrical fixtures and a wooden banister staircase. Mr. Smith knocked on the apartment door and called out to Victoria (our costumed interpreter for the hour) Victoria welcomes us in. s Mr. Smith and Victoria chat for awhile. She mentions it’s the Sabbath neither her father or Mr. Rosenblatt (the landlord) are around. Her brothers are about their business either playing stick ball or taking in a picture show. Her parents and little brother are also out for the time being. As soon as we entered the apartment we were in the kitchen. There were about twelve visitors. It was a tight squeeze, my eyes glanced around the room. Noticing the clothes lines hanging in the kitchen, different spices lined the small