one of the best house museums I’ve ever been to is nestled right into Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. on an unassuming stretch of Halsted is a little house packed to the gills with artwork, objects, and oddities belonging to the Chicago Imagist Roger Brown (1941-1997). it’s kind of hard to describe, but every nook and cranny is filled with interesting ”stuff” and you’re invited to peruse the space in a really unconventional way (open the medicine cabinets, sit in his old Mustang in the garage).
the space has been temporarily closed for a few years but I’m holding out hope they reopen it for good! and if you’re a student at SAIC, supposedly you have access to the collection for research and art activations (aka performance).