Tenement Museum

For my second blog post I decided to visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My mother has always loved this museum because of the way it is designed and laid out. It is structured for the most part the same way it has been for the last 150 years. Of course, many key parts have been restored in order to continue allowing the building to house a museum with constant people inside. While walking around I really felt like I was getting as good of a glimpse of the past as possible. Just staring into each living space and trying to imagine how supposedly 7,000 people were in one building was just a horrifying thought to me. It was then I realized why my mother is such a big advocate of the museum. Aside from the visualization aspect of it, there is also an educational component. I learned about the harsh living conditions of immigrants in the late 1800’s- early 1900’s. These immigrants all had different backgrounds and came from different parts of the globe and came here for one common goal, freedom. I think this is a very special museum and anybody who has a chance should definitely check out the Tenement Museum.