I really liked this experience: a hictoric old building and a knowledgeable guide who told us memorable stories about a big and close knit German community living in the neighbordood in the 1860s.
This is the Schneder's small bar. We learnt the important social role this place played in people´s lives in those times. It was more than a bar back then. In this part of the building we did a role play: each of us played the role of of one of the many people who usually attended the bar. We had to walk around the place and talk to each other in order to find the way to trade or barter our services with one another. It was a vey interesting and engaging activity!
In the same apartment we also saw the Schneider's small but homey bedroom. Some of us confessed we live or had lived in a flat smaller than this bedroom!
I´d love to go back and see the rest of the rooms open to the public! I won´t leave NYC without returning to this museum!
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