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Our New Space

Opening this Summer!

Opening in 2025!

Our permanent museum home is opening soon, in the last remaining building of the 1930s WPA-era Jane Addams Homes in Chicago’s Near West Side.


  • Promo card for Out of the Archives episode 23, This is Still My Neighborhood

    Oral History

    Out of the Archives

    Our newest episode is here! Narrators Janetta Pegues and Allen Schwartz share insights about the Near West Side’s different periods of redevelopment and change.
  • Workers on a lift hang a large mural on the facade of a brick building

    Public Art

    Invitation Wall

    Andrea Carlson’s mural Still Here: Zhegagoynak invites the public to reflect on the legacies of displacement on the land where the museum is located.
  • Animal Court Sculpture Garden

    Installations

    Animal Court Sculpture Garden

    Learn more about our installation of Edgar Miller’s beloved sculptures.
  • Listen to a captivating oral history from Dr. Timuel Black, historian and activist.

    Interview

    Listen to a captivating oral history from Dr. Timuel Black, historian and activist.

  • Relive events, memories, and more with us.

    Museum Stories

    Relive events, memories, and more with us.

    Get a behind-the-scenes peek into events, archives, and more.

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Everyone deserves a place to call home.

International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Members

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.

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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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