John R.
8/19/2025
Docents, displays and quality of collection amazing to experience first hand, an immersive opportunity!!
Merchant's House Museum
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29 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003
The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only 19th century home preserved intact, with original family furnishings and personal belongings.A unique survivor of Old New York, the House offers a rare and intimate glimpse of how a prosperous merchant family and their Irish servants lived from 1835 to 1865, when New York grew from seaport to thriving metropolis."The distinction of the Merchant's House -- and it is a powerful one -- is that it is the real thing. One simply walks through the beautiful doorway into another time and place in New York."The New York Times
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4.598 reviews
Kym T.
6/15/2025
Let me begin by saying if you haven't been to the Merchant's House Museum, and you are a lover of period homes, you are missing out. Here's why. The Merchant's House was purchased by Seabury...
Sarah M.
2/10/2025
A charming little gem of a museum. Both the house and contents are amazingly preserved, so you feel like you have stepped into the past for a bit while here. As a small museum, it will not take...
Kevin B.
7/11/2024
This is such an interesting museum! We had heard about it as the building is under duress with the building of a high rise next door and we wanted to make sure we saw it now in case some of the...
Sharon B.
8/3/2023
This I would like to call a hidden Gem in NYC. It's a 19th century house that is still fully in place and looks completely original so I can't imagine how it was all preserved so well. As I walked...
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