Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
For more than 20 years, Carnegie Corporation has helped the Tenement Museum welcome millions of visitors—including K-12 students—into the homes of immigrant, migrant, and refugee families to inspire connections between past and present and promote an inclusive, expansive, and pluralistic American identity. This work directly aligns with the Corporation’s mission to build a foundation for a stronger democracy and reduce polarization through education. With Corporation support, the museum will continue to provide programming that sparks awareness,deepens engagement andinspires knowledge and connectionto build a more inclusive and expansive American society. At a time when public rhetoric about im/migrants and im/migration is increasingly polarized,the central role im/migration continues to play in our nation’s history has never been more important.
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Project Title
As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1988, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum studies and shares the stories of migrants and immigrants who settled in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The museum comprises two historic tenements that housed nearly 15,000 residents from twenty nations between 1863 and 2014. In recent years, the museum has developed a new exhibit exploring the relationships and different life experiences of Irish and Black residents of local tenement housing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum invested in a range of new digital and online programs to accompany its traditional on-site tours, which have been limited due to pandemic safety precautions. Over the coming years, the museum will undertake a major preservation and stabilization project to ensure it can safely offer on-site programs to future visitors. With Corporation support, the museum will continue to develop and offer online and on-site programs that educate the public about tenement life in New York City.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Since its opening in 1988, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum seeks to preserve and interpret the history of immigration thorough personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum, like many of its sister institutions, is having to adapt to online museum tours and educational outreach. With Corporation support, the museum will adjust to this new environment and also plan for in-person tours when the opportunity presents itself.
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Project Title
As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Since its opening in 1988, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum seeks to preserve and interpret the history of immigration thorough personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Today, immigrants are once again becoming increasingly marginalized and blamed as the root cause of a divided America, an “us vs them” mindset. With Corporation support, the Museum, through guided tours of its historic tenement homes and educational programming, will continue its quest to bring a more holistic understanding of immigrants, combating false narratives and dispelling anti-immigrant myths that have gained a pernicious foothold in the national consciousness.
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Project Title
As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Now operating in its 29th year, the mission of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is to preserve and interpret the history of immigration thorough personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Museum, housed in a 19th century tenement building, was home for more than 7,000 immigrants who hailed from more than 50 countries including including Russia, Greece, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Poland, and Germany. With Corporation support, the Museum will continue to give the more than 228,000 people who visit annually an opportunity to explore apartments that have been restored to the time they were occupied, while hearing stories of the families who lived there. Major stakeholders in the Tenement Museum are the 56,000 school children and 20,000 teachers who visit each year, participating in educator-led tours, learning through facilitated storytelling, empathy building, and teacher professional development workshops.
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Toward research for the creation of post-WWII immigrant apartment exhibits.
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
12 months
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Sep. 29, 2005
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0 months
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Toward marketing and distribution of a resource guide for new immigrants in New York City
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Apr. 08, 2004
Duration
6 months
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Jun. 09, 2004
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