Palm Springs Art Museum

Palm Springs Art Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built 1938. Architect: Emerson Stewart Williams. Source: National Register of Historic Places #16000890 (via Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2048123). Photo: Toohool, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

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The institution now known as Palm Springs Art Museum was founded in 1938 as the Palm Springs Desert Museum at La Plaza, with programming dominated by natural science exhibits and Cahuilla artifacts. It moved several times downtown before building its first permanent structure in 1958 at Tahquitz-McCallum Way and Indian Avenue. By the late 1960s that 10,000-square-foot building had become too small, and in 1974 architect E. Stewart Williams was commissioned to design the current Museum Drive building, which opened in 1976. The museum adopted its current name, Palm Springs Art Museum, in 2005. Source: https://www.psmuseum.org/about/our-story

Source: Palm Springs Art Museum, “Our Story” (institutional history)

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