National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
We are pleased to be content developers as well as exhibition designers for the new National Public Housing Museum, the first cultural institution in the US dedicated to telling the story of public housing. The museum preserves and transforms the only remaining building of the historic Jane Addams Homes on the Near West Side. The three-story brick building opened in 1938 as the first federal government housing project in Chicago. It housed hundreds of families over six decades and has been vacant since 2002. Through interpretive apartment recreations, art galleries and installations, oral history archives, and spaces for community activism the museum will preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to a place to call home.
Explore the museum and its culture here.
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“They’re not preserving objects and artifacts to encase public housing in amber; instead, the space squarely seeks to reinvigorate our interest in collective well-being by tackling public housing’s dominant narrative—one of crime, poverty, and eventual destruction—head on.”
—Anjulie Rao, Dwell Magazine
Photograph by Ryan Barayuga
Photograph by Percy Ollie Jr. of Ollie Photography
Photograph by Ryan Barayuga
Photograph by Joe Nolasco
