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Our mission is to preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to a place where they can live and prosper—a place to call home.

    Public Art

    View from above, a white, purple, orange, and blue geometric mural turns a parking lot into a play space

    Public art installations surround the National Public Housing Museum, highlighting the roles of art and public space in creating healthy communities.

    OOPS, the basketball court and playspace for The HOOPcycle.
    Photo by Scott Shigley, 2024.

    Arched lettering reads Bodéwadmikik Potawatomi Land over a blue sky and landscape

    Andrea Carlson: Still Here

    Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe) offers this mural as a way to connect the histories of Black and Indigenous removal and displacement from the land where the museum is located.

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    Taylor Street Memories

    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.

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    View from above, a white, purple, orange, and blue geometric mural turns a parking lot into a play space

    OOPS & HOOPcycle

    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.

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    A black and white image from the 1940s shows a courtyard surrounded by brick buildings. In the courtyard, children in swimsuits play in water spraying out from the concrete and climb on stone animal statues surrounding the fountain.

    Animal Court

    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…

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    Archival photos of Black gymnasts standing and tumbling are collaged onto a field of blue and a layer of repeating leaf-like daubs of gold, red, purple, and green paint.

    ReCreation

    ReCreation is a monumental floor to ceiling mural by Marisa Morán Jahn that celebrates energetic, ground-up civic initiatives.

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    A close up of several paint chips of different colors—red, yellow, blue, orange—stacked on top of each other.

    Resilient Hues

    This vividly colored installation by Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous welcomes visitors to the National Public Housing Museum

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