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A story has the power to make the floor of a Field Museum exhibition hall feel like the center of the Arab world.
It’s a trip back in time that highlights the struggles and resilience of people who have lived in public housing.
The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American .
Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...
A former federal housing project in Chicago recently received a $17.5 million renovation to ensure preservation of residents’ ...
A one-of-a-kind Chicago museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. The National Public Housing ...
Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled ...
Chicago is now home to the National Public Housing Museum, a first of its kind institution created alongside people who’ve ...
The National Public Housing Museum is now open in Chicago. Installations, exhibits and stories about public housing's ...
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.
Founded By Public Housing Residents, First Institution in U.S. to Interpret History ... for the Chicago Housing Authority and board member of the National Public Housing Museum.