Welcome home.
Toured by nearly 300,000 guests since its debut in May 2008, the Smart Home provides examples and ideas for sustainable living with contemporary style and in harmony with the environment. Whether you're into gardening, gadgets or garages, it will reboot your thinking about your home and how to live greener.
- Pre-Fabulous
- Meet the Smart Home architect and learn about the advantages of modular home construction.
- Smart Technology
- The Smart Home leads a secret double life behind the wood and drywall.
- Green Inside... and Out
- How green is the garden? Explore sustainable landscaping, a solar roof and a rooftop garden!
- Museum Hours
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- Daily: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Open every day except Christmas Day
- Museum Location
- Getting Here
Exhibit Resource Guide
- Download the 2011 Smart Home resource guide to see the eco-friendly products, "green" ideas and resources found throughout the exhibit.
- Exhibit Resource Guide (PDF)
Smart Home Podcast
- Meet the architect of "Chicago's greenest home" in our interview with Michelle Kaufmann.
Download the Smart Home Podcast
Learn More
- Find out more about the mkSolaire and the architect who created the home.
Read Michelle's blog - See the Smart Home on NBC Nightly News.
- Check out the story