
Living in the Shade
Explore the role of open space—large lawns and tenant gardens, paved paths and play spaces, shady seating areas and public art—in creating more livable, healthy, and thriving communities.
Explore the role of open space—large lawns and tenant gardens, paved paths and play spaces, shady seating areas and public art—in creating more livable, healthy, and thriving communities.
Three recreated apartments at the heart of the National Public Housing Museum showcase the stories of diverse families who lived in the Jane Addams Homes.
Conceptualized by artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal, the mobile art installation HOOPcycle offers a reimagined sports experience that challenges norms and unites communities through play.
History Lessons offers intimate glimpses of life in public housing through everyday objects and personal memories.
Still Here uses art, archives, and public dialogue to explore and connect histories of displacement on the land where the National Public Housing Museum is located. As an institution that addresses displacement of public housing residents, we also want to understand the forcible removal of Indigenous peoples that came before and grapple with how those experiences are interwoven…
Invitation Wall is the museum’s 40-foot outdoor public art exhibition space that reflects the museum’s commitment to radical hospitality.
As you walk down Taylor Street, meet one of our founders, Commissioner Deverra Beverly and learn about the changing neighborhood through the stories of past residents. These exhibits are accessible from the outside of the museum.
Beyond the uniform exteriors of public housing buildings, there are apartment units with unique, enthralling, and carefully curated interiors.
No government program has left a more visible legacy on the American landscape than the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration. Along with the construction of hundreds of federally funded buildings, including the Jane Addams Homes, the program employed thousands of artists.
Experience the enchanting seven-piece sculpture Animal Court by Edgar Miller, which has been lovingly restored and placed in our courtyard. The sculpture garden is free and open to the public during museum hours…
All objects have stories to tell. Explore artifacts preserved from the Jane Addams Homes and consider what they have to say about the style, culture, and history of public housing.
What does it take to create and maintain truly public housing? Each year, we invite guest curators to examine a single case study that we believe demonstrates a creative commitment to public housing to learn from housing projects across the country…
ReCreation is a monumental floor to ceiling mural by Marisa Morán Jahn that celebrates energetic, ground-up civic initiatives.
This vividly colored installation by Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous welcomes visitors to the National Public Housing Museum
Curated by DJ Spinderella, the REC Room celebrates the music that has emerged from public housing. Browse our collection of records, spin your favorites, and learn more about music history.
When American sitcom Good Times came out in 1974, it was the first time public housing residents saw themselves on mainstream television. Watch clips selected by current and former Cabrini- Green residents.