 A new modern structure was built for the Art Museum component in downtown Palm Springs in 1958, and in 1962 it expanded for an auditorium and new galleries to house contemporary art exhibitions.Frederick Sleight – anthropologist and Executive Director – is credited with guiding the transformation.Renowned local architect E. Stewart Williams designed another new building only a few blocks away, in the Modernist architectural style, for the third and present location of the growing museum.