Our Historic Heart
Experience stories from public housing
Offered daily, our immersive Historic Apartment Tours transport visitors into the lived experiences of residents of the Jane Addams Homes between 1938 and 1975.
What’s Happening at the National Public Housing Museum
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Calendar
Join us for an upcoming program
Become a part of our community and join us for one of our free events.
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Call for photos
Add your photo to Living in the Shade
Public housing residents are invited to show off the gardens, basketball courts, playgrounds, or public art just outside your front door!
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Summer reads
Play Ball
From baseball to boxing to basketball, dig in to the long history of sports in public housing.
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Installations
Animal Court Sculpture Garden
Learn more about our installation of Edgar Miller’s beloved sculptures.
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Podcast
‘Beauty is Remembered’: A Mother’s Fight for Public Housing
Who are the heroes of your neighborhood? In the latest episode of Out of the Archives, we honor the legacy of Ms. Beauty Turner, the namesake of our flagship oral history training programs.
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Programs
Meet our Artist as Instigator
Natasha Florentino is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and video producer whose practice involves deep research, community engagement, and a sustained commitment to revealing the power dynamics behind displacement
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Everyone deserves a place to call home.
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International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Members
We are members of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites that believes that history and memory must inform social change. To foster a more just and humane society, we provide safe spaces to remember and preserve even the most traumatic memories and enable visitors to make connections between the past and related contemporary human rights issues.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
We believe that everyone must repair and redress the systemic injustices of the past. The museum is committed to creative strategies that build the social and cultural capital of public housing residents, and developing alternative economies that are more equitable.
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