Exhibitions
Explore our current and upcoming exhibitions, featuring displays that highlight architectural creativity, innovation and the cultural significance of our built environment.
Explore our current and upcoming exhibitions, featuring displays that highlight architectural creativity, innovation and the cultural significance of our built environment.
PLEASE NOTE: The Center's Skyscraper Gallery upstairs is currently closed for installation of a new exhibition Constructing Hope: Ukraine opening March 10. Architectural Head Games, The Chicago Gallery and Framed Views exhibitions are open for visitors at a reduced rate of $5 through March 9.
- Nov 2024 - Jul 2025
Framed Views
A selection of photographs from Open House Chicago 2024. - Mar - Sep 2025
Constructing Hope: Ukraine
This exhibition explores short and long term reconstruction efforts in Ukraine bringing together a wide range of grassroots projects to illustrate how architecture can foster mutual aid and facilitate crucial support networks for entire communities. - Jun - Oct 2025
The Prize is the Beginning
Illuminating Architectural Excellence Through the Americas Prize. - Permanent
Chicago City Model Experience
The Chicago City Model Experience is the star attraction in the Chicago Gallery, featuring more than 4,000 buildings and interactive elements that tell amazing stories of the city. - Permanent
The Legacy of Wrigley Field
This exhibition traces Wrigley Field’s journey from its 1914 origins as Weeghman Park to its current status as a National Historic Landmark, highlighting key renovations, its famous ivy-covered walls and its role in Chicago’s sports and cultural history. - Permanent
Chicago Gallery
Come explore the first floor of the Chicago Architecture Center featuring rotating installations focused on the history, present and future of the built environment in our city.
Explorer kits available
Did you know that the Chicago Loop can be used as a laboratory to learn new things about how we live and play? Stop by the CAC Box Office and pick up a FREE Lab Explorer Kit for the Loop as Lab: Reshaping Downtowns exhibition! Contents are designed to engage youth ages 6 to 12.
