Monthly Archives: February 2011

Prior to entering the Tenement Museum, I devourer a McDonald’s “Big Mac” and a medium-sized fries, in hoping to satisfy my appetite and to give me a burst of energy to stay awake during the tour, which I assumed to … Continue reading →

I didn’t know what to expect when Professor Berger announced we were going to the Tenement Museum the week before last. The only thing I knew about the museum before we stepped foot in the building was that a friend’s … Continue reading →

Before the trip, I always thought the Tenement Museum was a museum like any other; I would walk around a building and learn from studying pictures and memorabilia from that generation. However, I was pleasantly surprised when the experience turned out to … Continue reading →

The visit to the tenement museum was enlightening. First, the actress was excellent. And then, there was the real image, a snapshot of how life for immigrants was then, projected through the tenement itself. I did not expect that the … Continue reading →

The Tenement Museum was small, and unlike any museum I have been to before, lacked exhibits or even pretensions of exhibits.  But the information the Tenement Museum wants to present, they adequately do, through authentic-seeming depictions of immigrant life in … Continue reading →