The Homeless Museum of Art (HoMu) is an art project that presents itself as a legitimate cultural institution to articulate a dual critique of the cultural institution as enterprise and the cult of the artist as shaman. Created in 2002 by New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme, it was inspired by the artist's increasing identification with the homeless as individuals who have fallen through the cracks of a very loosely knit, Darwinian society. Blending absurdity with sincerity, HoMu challenges the integrity of major cultural institutions that have succumbed to the lure of real estate business and commerce. The deliberately ambiguous name of the project, Homeless Museum of Art, points to the artist's perception of urban real estate monopoly as a threat to both human dignity and urban culture.

HoMu is NOT an anthropological museum about homelessness or the homeless. However, it can sometimes be found on alternate Sundays near or in front of the Bowery Mission at 227 Bowery.