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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a museum and National Historic Site located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The museum's two historical tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011.
Tenement Museum may refer to: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a museum in Manhattan, New York City. 14 Henrietta Street, a museum in Dublin, Ireland.
The tenement house was built between around 1820 and 1822, as a residence of historian and linguist Feliks Jan Bentkowski. It was designed by architect Hilary Szpilowski. In the second half of the 19th century, a sculptor Adam Zelt lived in the tenement house.
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, founded in 1999 by Ruth Abram [why?], was an initiative that took place in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, under the consideration of incorporating current social issues in museums, relating the past to the present and its human rights challenges.
The Tenement House historic house museum in the Garnethill area of Glasgow preserves the interior, fittings and equipment of a well-kept, upper middle-class tenement from the late 19th century. Many tenements in Glasgow were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s because of slum conditions, overcrowding and poor maintenance of the buildings.
The Mmuseumm was founded by Alex Kalman [3] [4] and the Safdie brothers. [5] [6] It curates its content and locations by "seasons", reflective of its original summer hours, [7] and has called two locations home on Cortlandt Alley between Franklin Street and White Street, sometimes known as Mmuseumm Alley. [8]
14 Henrietta Street is a social history museum located on Henrietta Street in Dublin, Ireland. [1] The museum, which is sometimes referred to as the Tenement Museum, [2] [3] opened in September 2018. It tells the story of how the building turned into tenements after its Georgian times and of the many residents who occupied this house throughout ...
The Old Brewery is depicted in the Martin Scorsese 2002 film Gangs of New York as the Five Points Christian Mission, tenement building, and pauper playhouse. The 2012 video game Assassin's Creed III has the "Boston Brawlers Tournament" in Boston , Massachusetts , within an old brewery modeled after the former Five Points building.