SPECIAL MUSEUM PACKAGE
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Museum at Eldridge Street, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust have joined to launch the Gateway to America Heritage Tour, a special promotion that encourages visitation to immigrant heritage sites and offers $2 off admission to these institutions.
Guests may download a Gateway to America Passport at www.mjhnyc.org/heritagetour and present it at each museum to receive the discount.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Museum at Eldridge Street, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage each offer a unique approach to depicting the immigrant experience. Collectively, they tell a powerful and comprehensive story about immigration to New York City. The locations of the museums—one on New York Harbor across from the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and two on the Lower East Side—provide evocative backdrops for this heritage tour.
Through this special self-guided tour package, visitors can learn about immigrants’ lives by seeing where they lived, delving into their diverse cultures, and listening to their accounts using 21st century digital technology.
At the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, visitors meet the residents who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. These working-class immigrants faced challenges people understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, and starting a family with limited means.
In the Museum at Eldridge Street, guests discover how the immigrant experience transformed and continues to transform communities today. In one of New York City’s most breathtaking National Historic Landmarks, the magnificently restored 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, visitors step into the footsteps of the synagogue’s immigrant founders and explore award-winning digital displays of the Museum’s Lower East Side neighborhood.
Voices of Liberty at the Museum of Jewish Heritage is an interactive installation with a backdrop of beautiful views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Visitors hear the stories of diverse individuals who sought to build new lives in America from 1935 through the present. Using the latest interactive technology, visitors hear inspiring first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and others who chose to make the United States their home.
The Gateway to America Passport can be used at one, two, or all three museums. For hours, directions, and prices, please visit www.mjhnyc.org/heritagetour.
