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MAS Context A House Museum for the Future
“The museum’s opening is a triumph of a long game.” Elizabeth Blasius on the new National Public Housing Museum, “a worthwhile visit for anyone who understands the importance of home.”
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Washington Post How a dream of providing decent housing went wrong
“It is the small, everyday things that are most evocative: a rotary telephone, a Pyrex baking dish, an old hand mixer and furniture that looks well lived in.” The Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott reviews the new National Public Housing Museum, where everyday objects help fight “a heroic battle against misinformation, amnesia and bad history.”
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The Progressive Rewriting the Narrative on Public Housing
“The history of public housing has been sensationalized for decades—but The National Public Housing Museum tells a different story.”
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Fox 32 Chicago National Public Housing Museum opens up world of history in Chicago
“It’s a trip back in time that highlights the struggles and resilience of people who have lived in public housing.“
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Smithsonian Magazine New Museum Examines the History of American Public Housing—and the Stories of Its Residents
“Narratives of institutional neglect and personal tragedy dominate the annals of American public housing. But sometimes, hope and real transformation can still shine through.”
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UIC Today UIC lessons guide creation of first national public housing museum
In an interview and preview of the National Public Housing Museum, Lisa Yun Lee shares “her vision for the museum and how UIC is part of its DNA.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.”
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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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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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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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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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Chicago Tribune National Public Housing Museum Opens Exhibit On Eviction
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WTTW Exhibit Explores Impact of Evictions With Help From People With Lived Experience
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WBEZ ‘Evicted’ Exhibition in Chicago Humanizes the Housing Crisis
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The Root Spinderella to Help Connect the Dots Between American Music and Public Housing
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