Absolutely outstanding museum! Incredible exhibits and marvelous venue. Docents are well versed and very friendly. Each display is thoughtfully laid out and easy to maneuver. I love this place!

I was highly confused by this exhibit. Because of the name of the museum, I expected examples of building architecture. However, the exhibit was not about building architecture. It was paintings of patterns. Please inform your patrons about this upon entry before they spend their time and money. In the past I went to a Bauhaus exhibit at your museum, and it was wonderful. I would love to see more exhibits like this in an architectural museum.

Very interesting exhibition featuring a California artist. The museum is smaller than I expected tho

Well curated aviation museum! You wont be sorry if you go. The people that work there and volunteer are so knowledgeable and their stories are amazing!

Great place to check out very interesting. Very friendly staff,the Docent Ramona was great she was most helpful and knowledgeable about the exhibit they were featuring at the time of my visit. Great gift shop, very well maintained and clean restroom facilities.

Came just to attend a lecture downstairs on the architecture of Disneyland. But the museum seems very impressive!

Worst place to visit j/k so much awsome people and look super cool on the outside.

We had free admission so it was OK. It did not seem to be an architectural museum at all though. I did not see any exhibits about architecture. We only saw exhibits of textiles & colorful fabrics. Some of the fabrics were beautiful though. It was a very small place also.

Love this place. All employees are volunteer veterans, they are willing to share information, very knowledgeable.

A great experience in the desert, awesome people and customer service

The best architecture museum I ever been, it’s like being inside of a mid century treasure!

Palm Springs Art Museum is the largest cultural institution in the Coachella Valley and includes three locations in Palm Springs and Palm Desert. The flagship building is located in downtown Palm Springs and features compelling art exhibitions, a vast permanent collection, and the 433-seat Annenberg Theater, all in a 150,000 square foot, architecturally-significant building. Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion features exhibitions and programming that explore the rich topics of architecture and design. Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert is an 8,400 square foot, Silver LEED-certified building named The Galen that presents rotating exhibitions and special collections. It is surrounded by the four-acre Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden featuring important sculpture works.

I am crazy about mid-century modern architecture, Palm Springs is pretty much the epicenter. The museum of architecture was originally built as a savings and loan in 1961.The volunteer staff at the museum were very nice!Very fun to check out in Palm Springs!

I love this museum. It seems like every time I go, they have changed the interior. The exhibits are always interesting, and I always look forward to the permanent collection.

When I was a kid in the early 90s this building housed a used mattress store where they neglected to change the plywood in place for months after someone broke the store front glass with a brick. Maybe they werent completely satisfied with their box spring? Maybe they hated MCM buildings? Anyway I think its not as cool as the Barcelona pavilion but beggars cant be choosers. Ask for Dorothy.

Havent been there for shows or full gallery set ups but I can tell they need work. Little gift shop seems to be the only attraction.

Great for a visit on the free nights, but very small and not nearly as much “architecture” as I expected from a museum with the word in its name. Gift shop had nice stuff, though.

Nice facility. The ping pong exhibit was on display when we visited. Nice gift shop.

Glad we visited. Nice to see various designs and design expressions. The display of the design tools brought back memories from my mechanical drawing classes in college. Hope to back again.

Not really an art museum. They say it is a design but only one guys design

In the gift shop.... Beautiful glass tray purchased... Great customer service

Small museum, so whether its worth the stop completely depends on the particular exhibit that is being featured at the time.

Feels like a building in search of a purpose. Worth going if you happen to be walking by, otherwise there are much better things to do in Palm Springs.

Verrrrry interesting...Art is a matter of opinion. Some of these artistic pictures, sculptures and creations werent pleasing to the naked eye, so take a closer look. Several items will blow your mind! End result? Awesome.

I loved this small eclectic museum.

Beautiful building, cool vault, friendly staff and unreasonably priced!10 bucks for playing ping-pong if you play!

Its a great place. The flight simulator is cool.

Love the drawings, illustrations, and models of unique buildings and homes. I was expecting more variety but this museum sent to feature one architect and his company. One floor of displays. But it is only $5 to get in and you get to use the tickets for $5 of at the main Palm Springs museum. P.S. Thursdays after 4pm both are free.

A little gem in the desert. Free on Thursday afternoons. They also do school tours for free. But, takes awhile to hear back from the person in charge. Students enjoy the experience. As part of the tour, they teach kids how to create their own masterpiece to take home.

Tiny but great building. Admission applies to main PSAM discount.

Greatart exhibits duhily and the 3 d optical illusion were good

Best art museum of its size in the region...

This is one of the best museums in the US, not just the south west. The curators have put a lot of deep thinking into the exhibits. The pieces are interesting, educational, engaging. I wish we had more museums like this back east.

Just the right size - always something new to see

Cool little museum! Doesnt take long to wander through, great location

Uhm. Lovely place. But there’s really no architecture here - it’s one room, so one exhibit and this time around it was about recyclable materials and we really came expecting a museum about architecture. It’s $5 pp. the store has nice books about architecture.

Beautiful building. Interesting exhibit on silk weaving but way too sparse for the available space. They need more program.

A small museum celebrating the architecture of Palm Springs currently celebrating the work of Hugh Kaptur. It took about 45 minutes to see and read everything. Admission is $5 but is sometimes free. Worthwhile if you like architecture and or engineering.

It was sad that there was no exhibition when I visit. However, the store has pretty interesting books and goods and staff were super nice and helpful.

Great mid century museum...and you can drive out afterwards and see the buildings right there in PS

Nice but small museum, one of the must things to do in Palm Springs if you are into Architecture.

A bit disappointing. This museum has no permanent exhibit and just one temporary exhibit, about three designers who use scrap fabric in their works. So the architecture museum had nothing about architecture inside. Nice restored modernist bank building, including a gift shop in the old vault.

Really dedicated almost entirely to the (admittedly very impressive) career of just one architect.

An excellent place to see the story behind some of the architectural gems that make palm springs beautiful.

Interesting exhibit on local architect. Made us realize that the hotel down the street from us was one of his creations.

Palm Springs Art Museum has a very fine and friendly place they update the art frequently always have something different to see whenever I go back. Best time to visit is on Thursday nights when theres no fee to enter. After viewing the art museum its a good time to go to the street party downtown, have a great time.

Beautiful place to see history via pictures, artifacts and documents.

Great architectural designs, just not very many yo look at. Great single floor layout for people with disabilities or strollers.

Excellent collection. Worth the visit.

Always interesting exhibits well presented. Come and enjoy learning more about architecture and design

Laid back

We all enjoyed the exhibits.

Tiny event space. Dont be fooled into thinking it is a full museum. If you go to the Palm Springs Art museum first (a short walk) you get free entry here.

Loved the Alexander Girard exhibition

Interesting if you like that kinda stuff.

Tiny, not much to see. We were expecting more.

Such a phenomenal venue - and its free on Thursdays evening! The highlight of the Desert

Very nice. Everyone should stop by.

Excellent docent lead tours.

Excellent exhibits, staff and docents

A good start. One man show.

This place is fantastic.

Love this place and they rotate their exhibits frequently so its always fresh.

This wonderful piece of mid-century modern architecture also holds one in exhibit at a time. The museum docents are incredibly friendly and chatty with tremendous insight to the local architecture! Best of all, the visits are free! I come here everytime Im in town.

You have to love MCM buildings. The displays are kinda dull. Nice building, but it needs more.

What great collections we were able to experience while visiting Palm Springs. From the relevance of the architecture and landscape to the choice of Artists featured, every moment spent at the Palm Springs Art Museum will bring you treasures.

They had a small exhibit but they had ping pong tables

Pitiful. We were charged $10 to walk around a single room with a few pieces of fabric on display. I wish I could get back that 1 hour of my life and my $10 back. Absolutely shameful.

You really get the feeling that the volunteers are extremely proud of their architecture here in Palm Springs. Just taking a drive around the place everything is so instaworthy and old school kool. Drop into the center and ask some questions and get some great tips on local architecture to check out.

Awesome. Its always fun to see architecture.

Just one room. 5$ to get in. Free if you go to the art museum first. Not always architecture its sometimes a exhibit focused on design. Right now its on yarn and textiles. Boring.

Mid Century Modern delight!

Small museum but they have maps of some of the Mid-century gems in town

Small but amazing, especially the Saturday afternoon talks.

The building itself is 5/5 but the museum seems to have a lot of wasted space inside... minimalism is wonderful if you know what belongs and doesnt but the flow seems too empty here. They sure did stock the shop with things to purchase though.

Museum closed. No Info on Website. Very disappointing.

The (former) drive-through window of this bank, now a branch of the Palm Springs Art Museum, has been giving a naming opportunity ... which I found sweet.Downstairs are archives of several of the regions notable architects. Access to the archives is by appointment.Admission is free.

Outstanding Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi exhibit, two visionary architects. The centers building was designed by E. Stewart Williams and is a excellent example of the International Style.

Nothing like this place, a real good take!

This was the cutest place! It was a great little stop for my family (2 kids included). The people were friendly, lots to looks at, and A/C!! What else do you need??!

Nice space but too small to warrant a visit

Cool little museum on mid century modern bank branch that had been repurposed to museum. Nice little gift shop that had unique gifts for those with an affinity for design

Good variation of median on display. Well documented self touring pamphlet available.

Nice little stop in downtown palm springs. Free and easy with parking. Guides are all very friendly and helpful.

Fabulous permanent collection. The collections dont change often so if you visit regularly, space out your return visits. Also, seems rather overstaffed.

Great architectural history of the Valley. Knowledgeable and helpful staff. Setting is mid-Century bank so history abounds.

Great thing to do in Palm Springs for a little variety.

I visited during modern week. Really interesting museum in a beautful building. Docents are friendly and knowledgeable.

Nice place to visit. Free admission on certain days

Welcome to the Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture And Design Center out in Beautiful Palm Springs, California.There are Only Two (2) Major Museums in Palm Springs, California and this is the Very First One That I Visited Today!The museum has several rooms featuring very nice paintings and architecture and if you ever come to Palm Springs, California, then please be sure to visit this museum!I want to personally Thank Mario Perez for taking ME there and helping make my Youtube Video back on Sunday, September 10, 2017.Sincerely yours,Howard Paul ShoreVisitorExecutive, Volunteer Writer For Google And Tripadvisor Websites/HPS

Good if somewhat small Art Museum. Well worth a free admission day visit.

On display until September are very nice architect drawings. Very helpful staff too! Worth a stop

Stumbled in here after a delicious, bottomless mimosa brunch. The Bauhaus exhibit I saw there was awesome... because Bauhaus.

Um, its pretty much nothing. They should call it a gallery or archive. Museum sets up expectations it does not meet.

Interesting experience. The day we went was free and the current exhibit was educational.

Must visit for anyone with even a passing interest in architecture. Great examples of furniture design that you can sit in, and best of all, its currently free for then next two seasons (years)!

Unremarkable waste of space

A lot of interesting things

Cool building and exhibit.

Glass exhibit is wonderful. Always something new to see.