Enter through the gift shop which has many interesting and unique toys and books and sign up for a guided group tour of a renovated tenement with rooms from different periods from the 1800s. The tour leader really helps make the experience and they are very knowledgeable. It can get quite hot inside in the summer as there are only fans and you need to go up and down stairs through narrow halls to squeeze into small furnished rooms but it is a very memorable interesting and educational experience to see how people lived not that long ago, easily imagining how they passed one another through the dark hall to get to the outhouse and get water. This museum is not wheelchair accessible so visitors must be able to negotiate narrow stairs and leave via the fire escape-like exit from the upper floors. Admission is about $12/tour and I wouldn't recommend taking more than one unless it's a cool day. Not for young children who will be bored and not able to touch anything!
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