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.
Loop as Lab: Reshaping Downtowns
Chicago’s Loop is at an inflection point, emerging from the pandemic on shaky footing but also with abundant opportunity. The New Magnificent: Visions to Renew and Reconnect the Mag Miles
The Magnificent Mile employs and engages people from every corner of the city and generates significant tax revenue. What can be done to inject new life into Chicago’s premier shopping destination for the benefit of our recovering downtown? Disrupters
Celebrating 50 Years of Chicago Women in Architecture Framed Views
A Selection of Photographs from Open House Chicago 2024. 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.
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.