Walking Tour | Pilsen Murals

Name: Walking Tour | Pilsen Murals
Start: 2025-10-04T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-04T12:30:00-05:00
Location: National Museum of Mexican Art

Schedule

Sat Oct 04 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

National Museum of Mexican Art | Chicago, IL

Experience the grandness of Pilsen’s murals with local poet and multidisciplinary artist Luis Tubens. As you walk through Chicago’s capital of Mexican cultures, get the larger meaning behind the public art on railroad viaducts, buildings, and doors, which shows an evolution of the community’s Mexican identity, heritage, and activism. The tour weaves the history of Pilsen with vibrant murals and lived personal experiences.
$25, $22.50 members
Tour runs 1.5 to 2 hours. Meet outside the National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 West 19th Street.
Tour also includes free admission to the Chicago History Museum, good for one week from tour date.
This tour is presented in partnership with Pilsen Public Art Tours.