The Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s exhibit, Shop Life [1] has been awarded the 2013 Gold Medal in Multimedia Installations Muse award [2] from the American Alliance of Museums' Media and Technology Professional Network.
For further reading, see also "A Saloon, an Auction House, an Undergarment Store: Business as Usual in New York City [3]" and "A Century of Commerce [4]."
e Lower East Side Tenement Museum received an implementation grant [5] for a long-term interpretation of lower-level spaces for living and commerce at 97 Orchard Street.
Links:
[1] http://www.tenement.org/shoplife.html
[2] http://www.mediaandtechnology.org/muse-awards/
[3] http://www.neh.gov/divisions/public/featured-project/saloon-auction-house-undergarment-store-business-usual-in-new-york
[4] http://www.neh.gov/news/century-commerce
[5] https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=br50141