Lower East Side Tenement Museum

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum will develop and design digital interactive components and train educators in their use for "Inherit the City," a new exhibit that will extend the museum's 19th and 20th century immigration narratives into the post-WWII period. The museum will create and interpret an apartment that was home to three families between the 1950s and 1970s: Holocaust survivors, Puerto Rican migrants and Chinese immigrants, and develop a multimedia map that will extend the story to present-day New Yorkers. The exhibit will attract new visitors and improve visitor engagement by offering more than a century of immigration history, illustrating how newcomers arriving after World War II transformed New York and the nation. To measure results the museum will collect data through focus groups, surveys and observation to ensure a continuous process of revision and refinement of content.