10 Best
USA Today’s “Best New Museum”—help bring it home
The National Public Housing Museum has been nominated as “Best New Museum” for USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards! Add your support to celebrate stories of resilience and Chicago’s vibrant new home for history, memory, music, art, and community.
What’s Happening at the National Public Housing Museum
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2025 Annual Appeal
Rooted in resilience
Your support makes it possible for the National Public Housing Museum to share vital stories, at a time when historical accountability and civic imagination are more important than ever.
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Music
Songs to help you travel with style
A soundtrack for your visit from Reginald Robinson, a virtuoso ragtime pianist and former resident of the Henry Horner Homes.
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Enhance your visit
Free Digital Guide
Hear stories from public housing and explore the museum on your own with Bloomberg Connects
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Calendar
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Everyone deserves a place to call home.
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International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Members
We are members of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites that believes that history and memory must inform social change. To foster a more just and humane society, we provide safe spaces to remember and preserve even the most traumatic memories and enable visitors to make connections between the past and related contemporary human rights issues.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
We believe that everyone must repair and redress the systemic injustices of the past. The museum is committed to creative strategies that build the social and cultural capital of public housing residents, and developing alternative economies that are more equitable.
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