Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is housed in two of the original Hull-House Settlement Buildings and is a US National Historic Landmark. Peace, labor issues, immigration rights and reform, urban development, women’s rights, juvenile justice, public support for the arts and free speech are among the issues addressed at the museum.

Exhibits and Events

The museum’s engaging exhibits include an alternative labeling project about Jane Addams and her relationship to Mary Rozet Smith, and an innovative cell phone tour where you will hear contemporary activists, intellectuals and artists like Bill Ayers, Paula Giddings, and Vijay Prashad discuss Hull-House history.

Every Tuesday from 12-1:30, come to the Museum for FREE, delicious soup made from local ingredients and served in the beautiful Arts & Crafts Residents' Dining Hall. Meals include a free conversation about urban agriculture and other critical local and global, food issues.

About Jane Addams

Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel peace prize in 1931, and was also described as “the most dangerous person in America” and "Public Enemy #1" because of her passivism, advocacy for women's rights and her commitment to a radically inclusive democracy.

She was the co-founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and helped to establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as well as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

As a close friend and associate of John Dewey, she played a role in the development of the philosophical school of American Pragmatism and the Chicago School of Sociology.