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.
- Upcoming: Jun 11, 2026
Chicago's Living Habitat
Co-curated by Openlands, this exhibition invites visitors to experience the landscapes that sustain life across our region, and to see their role in shaping its future. - Upcoming: Jun 11, 2026
Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem
This inspiring new exhibition, designed and co-curated by Studio Gang in collaboration with the CAC, aims to catalyze positive change on making cities safer and more welcoming for birds and diverse wildlife. - Apr 2026 - Feb 2027
Currents: 60 Years of the Chicago Architecture Center
Discover key ways the CAC has shaped the city's past, present and future across its 60-year history of innovation, advocacy and design. - Mar - May 2026
Here to Stay: Architecture After Arrival
How does a city build for permanence in an age of displacement? This is the question explored by three visionary architectural proposals in this exhibition. - 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. - 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 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.
