[4][5] Its exhibitions have featured the artwork of Osvaldo Budet, Elizam Escobar, Antonio Martorell, Ramon Frade Leon, and Lizette Cruz, in addition to local Chicago or Puerto Rican artists.

"[7] The Institute is a non-profit organization that is supported in part by the Chicago Park District's museum-in-the-parks program.

The museum complex and the Park (named for Alexander von Humboldt)[10] were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

[2][12] In the building's early days, noted landscape architect and Danish immigrant, Jens Jensen, had his park design offices here.

[13] The building suffered a major fire in 1992 but was restored through the efforts of community leaders and the Park District.