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    • Screenshot of WTTW video with the headline How Chicago’s New Public Housing Museum Took Direction From the Community: ‘It Was Surreal When We Walked In’
      WTTW Chicago Tonight

      How Chicago’s New Public Housing Museum Took Direction From the Community

      “A museum to commemorate the history and community of public housing has just opened in Chicago. But the National Public Housing Museum isn’t just a museum, there’s also a workforce program, recording studio, and actual affordable housing units, all on site.”
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    • Clipping of Block Club Chicago article with headline National Museum Of Public Housing Opens: ‘This Is A Destination’
      Block Club Chicago

      ‘This Is A Destination’

      “The visions of housing advocates and cultural leaders were realized Friday when former public housing neighbors, city and state officials joined dozens of supporters for the grand opening of the National Museum of Public Housing.”
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    • Screenshot of a NBC 5 video with the headline National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago
      NBC 5 Chicago

      National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago

      “The National Public Housing Museum is now open on the near West Side in Little Italy, featuring stories of hope and personal achievement.” LeeAnn Trotter visits the new museum.
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    • Screenshot of NPR page with headline A National Public Housing Museum opens
      NPR

      A National Public Housing Museum opens

      “There are exhibitions, a recording studio, art installations, even a small room where visitors can spin records made by people who lived in public housing.” From Chicago, Alison Cuddy reports.
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    • Screenshot of dwell article with the headline Why We Need the Nation’s First Public Housing Museum
      dwell

      Why We Need the Nation’s First Public Housing Museum

      “Opening this week in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum wants to reinvigorate our interest in collective well-being by tackling dominant narratives—of crime, poverty, and eventual destruction—head on.”
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    • Screenshot of WBEZ story with the headline The National Public Housing Museum opens this week in Chicago. Here’s a sneak peek.
      WBEZ

      The National Public Housing Museum opens this week in Chicago. Here’s a sneak peek.

      “The museum tells a less familiar story about the history of public housing. ‘It was a decent, lovely place to live,’ a former resident says.”
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    • Screenshot of AP article with the headline Unique Chicago museum showcases the history of public housing through its residents
      AP

      Unique Chicago museum showcases the history of public housing through its residents

      “Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.“
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    • Screenshot clipping of an article in the Chicago Tribune with the headline National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago
      Chicago Tribune

      National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago, the first of its kind, with residents’ stories at its heart

      “On a gray Thursday on Chicago’s Near West Side, Rev. Marshall Hatch Sr. stepped through time.” In the Chicago Tribune, Hannah Edgar previews the National Public Housing Museum, “the only museum of its kind in the country.”
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    • Screenshot of Art Newspaper article with the headline Changing the narrative: National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago
      The Art Newspaper

      Changing the narrative

      “Housed in one of the historic Jane Addams Homes, the new museum aims to challenge perceptions about the sector.”
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    • Newspaper clipping of the front page of the Sun-Times with the headline These Walls Can Talk
      Chicago Sun-times

      These Walls Can Talk

      “National Public Housing Museum is a living history awash in former residents’ stories and memorabilia.”
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    • Screenshot of Block Club Chicago article with the title Long-Awaited National Public Housing Museum Opening Next Month in Little Italy
      Block Club Chicago

      Long-Awaited National Public Housing Museum Opening Next Month

      “The museum, in the works since the late ’90s, will open in the last remaining building from the Chicago Housing Authority’s Jane Addams Homes.”
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    • Screenshot of a TRIIBE article with the headline Art Design Chicago amplifies Black and Indigenous histories with 2025 exhibitions
      The TRIIBE

      Art Design Chicago amplifies Black and Indigenous histories with 2025 exhibitions

      “We have the agency to tell our own stories. We are the future our ancestors hoped for and for which they endured the unimaginable.” Artist Monica Rickert-Bolter talks with the TRIIBE about “Still Here” and related Art Design Chicago projects
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    • Front page of the Chicago Sun-Times with the headline Finally Back Home
      Chicago Sun-Times

      Finally Back Home

      “Restoring the sculptures and returning them to their historic spot in the former Addams homes Animal Court is a bit of a coup for the new museum, where they’ll likely be a popular attraction and provide fond memories for the now grown-up kids who played in and around the big stone animals.”
      Read about the return
    • NYCHA Journal article with the headline Meet Derval Fairweather Winner of the National Public Housing Museum Art Competition, illustrated by a self portrait of the artist
      NYCHA Journal

      Meet Derval Fairweather

      “Derval Fairweather has been drawing and painting since he was a young boy. Soon, one of his paintings will be replicated and placed in the hands of many as it becomes the design on the membership card for the new National Public Housing Museum opening soon in Chicago.“
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    • Screenshot of Axios Chicago article with title HOOPcycle exhibit in Chicago is about the right to play
      Axios Chicago

      HOOPcycle exhibit in Chicago is about right to play

      “Artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal created the mobile game to create a sense of play and recreation wherever it’s stationed, which is currently in the parking lot of the National Public Housing Museum“
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    • Screenshot of Urban Omnibus article shows a collage of family photos under the headline The Inside Story by Jayah Arnett
      Urban Omnibus

      The Inside Story

      “Soon, visitors waiting for tours of apartments or to enter the collection galleries, will be surrounded by images and recollections of the domestic scenes and settings.” Artist Jayah Arnett writes about My Project Runway and her collaborations with the museum.
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    • Illustration with flowers and a cartoon cat reads Wattz Up! Our Shared Future
      Yollocalli: Wattz Up!

      Our Shared Future

      In conjunction with the Smithsonian’s initiative “Our Shared Futures: Reckoning With Our Racial Past,” Wattz Up!’s Ariandy Luna and August Abitang engage with voices of the museum industry to learn how some Chicago museums address the history of racism and segregation and seek to change the future through strengthening connections beyond neighborhoods
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    • WTTW News
      WTTW

      Exhibit Explores Impact of Evictions With Help From People With Lived Experience

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    • WBEZ Evicted
      WBEZ

      ‘Evicted’ Exhibition in Chicago Humanizes the Housing Crisis

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    • Spinderella
      The Root

      Spinderella to Help Connect the Dots Between American Music and Public Housing

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