For this assignment we had to come up with a response to our visit to the Tenement Museum. This is a subject I’m very interested in, since I’m very engaged in making the Museum of Polish Immigration happen. So I decided to make a piece for it. What I really enjoy in the Tenement Museum is that there’s someone [...]

  Last Wednesday was my second time visiting the Tenement Museum, and, again, I really enjoyed the visit, which was something I didn’t expect. Let me explain: I’ve always hated (yes, I’m very passionate) museums that display objects trying to depict the way people lived at a given time. I always thought “yeah, that’s how they slept. Hum, so what?”. [...]

  After visiting the Museum at Eldridge St Synagogue me and Fernanda went to The Tenement Museum. The first contact with it was the Museum Shop, where we need to buy tickets for the tours. It was different, but also nice, since a shop is never intimidating and an environment we are all very used too. The area where tickets [...]