Excellent small museum which focuses on outsider art and is the only one that does across the US. Visit and learn about Henry Darger's past and artwork and visit the room that he lived in for years. Certainly a great space amd a great find in the city.

I loved this place so much. Fantastic small wonderful enriching place to visit. Make a reservation online before you go and you’re set.

A one-of-a-kind museum with short-term and permanent collections of outsider art. I loved viewing the dioramas by Marvin Tate, especially while listening to the associated music collaborations he did. The Henry Darger exhibit is not to be missed.

What a hidden gem! Small and powerful, an affordable and thought provoking little museum. If you're the kind of person who thinks this sounds interesting, I highly recommend it. It may not be for everyone, but it is for the artsy weirdo nerds 🙌

I came here and saw the “TED DEGENER: AT HOME WITH ARTISTS” exhibit. It felt full-circle that I began my Chicago trip at the Art Institute ($50) and ended my trip at Intuit ($5). I much prefer Intuit’s exhibit on art environments. It offered a glimpse into the every day person across America who creates art using non-traditional medium. I liked the bottle cap throne a lot. Seeing that photograph of the artist sitting in his bottle cap created room brought up realizations about American excess (there were A LOT of bottle caps) and artists who make do with what they have to create. It was also surreal to me to see Jordan Knight’s Salvation Mountain featured because I had visited that monument a few years ago. My critique of the exhibit is that it didn’t go into enough details. The space was small so there were only so many photographs that were shown. I didn’t feel that the art environments featured were adequately given context. I wanted to learn more about each environment and more information on what led the artists to create them.

We have been wanting to visit this museum for years and finally got to check it out. We bought tickets online for $5 each, and it was an easy process. When we arrived a man told us about the exhibits. The museum is small, with a small gift shop and a few galleries. We spent about an hour looking at the paintings and photographs. There was a video viewing area with easy chairs and complimentary coffee, tea, and water. You could press a button to select a video to watch. There were about 10 to choose from they were all very interesting. The videos were created with a handheld camera, so please be aware if you are prone to motion sickness. Great museum, will be back!

Excellent, small little museum. $5 per person and spent about 45 minutes here taking in all of the art they had. Was a little disappointed the Darger room was no longer on display, but it's currently being restored which is obviously important. Really excited to make visiting here a part of my museum rotation when visiting Chicago!

Nice little pocket art museum!

absolutely worth the very small entry fee. the concept of outsider art is really cool and deserves space in Chicago. the henrgy dagner stuff is great

This is what my dreams are made of! Always loved outsider art and stumbled upon this diamond in the rough. Describes backgrounds of the outsider artists on the plaques and it is so well represented! Just love it, wish we were local; I would definitely become a member.

Wonderful small art museum, well worth a visit

Came for the Darger collection, stayed for the excellent staff. Knowledgeable, friendly, and excited about this kind of outsider art. All the Darger we could handle and more, as well as several interesting pieces from artists I now get to learn about. Pro Tip: Skip the Darger CD in the gift shop if you wanted readings of his work set to music and not a pompous rock opera. Get the book on gender fluidity instead, avoid my mistakes.

Put Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art on your must visit Museum in Chicago, IL. Not only is the main exhibit floor architecturally awesome, the collection of artwork, sculptures and experiences is beautifully inspiring. The best part: It's free! Just reserve ahead of time. It will be a memorable visit.

The Intuit gallery consistently features interesting artists and works that I wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to, always worth checking out their shows and events (and the staff is super friendly).

Wonderful space (albeit small) to spend time marveling at the very personal, intuitive art created by self-taughr artists

Love this place. . .the Henry Darger exhibit is exceptional!

While it is a small gallery, it draws you in and invites you to look at and read about every piece. It is fascinating to read about these obscure and unknown artists and the possible talents that came from other unknowns as well

Great gallery and super friendly staff. Convenient parking in spoke across from CVS.

This is a great little museum with a $5 entry. I go for each new exhibit. They focus on Outsider, Intuitive, Self-taught, and Folk artists. Being an artist, I'm always inspired by the art they curate. The gift shop also includes great small pieces by local artists, it's so hard to not buy something (and I usually do). They offer timed entry tickets and walk-ins.

Absolutely love the concept and execution. If you love art, and love people, don’t miss it.

Interesting art museum focused on primarily what is called "outsider" art which basically means various art forms created by out of the mainstream artists and art practitioners. It seems to emphasize intuitive rather than populist aspect of arts. In other words, artists who march to the beat of their own drums. There is much to learn and appreciate this genre.

This is the coolest place in Chicago. Such rich, thoughtful curation of fascinating and beautiful art. It’s already become a must-visit for the next time I’m in town. Also has the best gift shop & art for sale of any museum I’ve ever visited. If I wasn’t on a backpacking trip I’d have taken the whole shop home with me, to the detriment of my wallet but the benefit of my walls.

Staff is incredibly friendly, with great history of Chinese Americans and Chinatown in Chicago. Definitely, definitely worth a visit!