Palm Springs Art Museum, Modern art museum in Palm Springs, United States

The Palm Springs Art Museum is a visual and performing arts institution in downtown Palm Springs, California. Its main building, designed by architect E. Stewart Williams in the Modernist style, opened in 1976 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The museum holds over 24,000 objects, including fine art, photography, Native American art, and natural science specimens, and it includes the 437-seat Annenberg Theater.

The museum was founded in 1938 as a natural history museum and shifted its focus toward art in the 1950s after receiving major donations of artworks. That change set the direction the institution has followed ever since.

The museum's name changed from Palm Springs Desert Museum to Palm Springs Art Museum in 1982, when the Denney Western American Art Wing was added and classic American western art entered the collection. Its holdings number more than 24,000 objects, split between fine art, photography and Native American and Mesoamerican pieces, and natural science specimens such as minerals, fossils and mounted birds.

The museum stands at the north end of downtown Palm Springs, with the Annenberg Theater inside the same complex. The Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion, occupies a former Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1961, a short walk from the main building.

The museum runs a separate center called the Architecture and Design Center, housed inside a former bank building a short walk away. This center focuses on the desert modern style that shaped much of the city's built look in the mid-20th century.