Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
219 S. Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
at the Village Green Heritage Center, downtown
760-323-0151, 760-778-1079
http://www.accmuseum.org/
Summer Hours (Memorial Day to Labor Day)
Fri-Sat: 10a-5p
Sun: 12p-5p
Seasonal Hours (Labor Day to Memorial Day)
Weds-Sat: 10a-5p
Sun: 12p-5p
FREE
Note: the Museum was planning a major renovation, contact the museum for status.
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum is an organization that preserves, interprets, and provides access to the history and culture of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and other Cahuilla peoples.
Agua Caliente Cultural Museum is the first Native American museum to be part of the Smithsonian Institution Affiliations Program. This special relationship provides opportunities to share resources in programming, collections, scholarship, and technical expertise -- and entitles the Museum to bring world-acclaimed exhibitions to the Coachella Valley.
A southern California basket collection of over 400 items features the works of Cahuilla basketweavers and their neighboring tribes. It is an excellent resource for comparative studies of styles, techniques, and materials.
Cahuilla ceramics include ollas, cooking pots, pendants, and pipes. Shell beads, bone tools, and numerous stone utensils such as manos, metates, mortars, and pestles used for food preparation are represented in the collections. Historic period artifacts from early habitation sites include items such as cans, bottles, china, and buttons.
The Tahquitz Canyon Archaeological Collection contains over 50,000 artifacts from the oldest and largest village site and is one of the most extensive excavation projects in California. The collection includes all field notes and photographs of the projects, as well as ethnographic and ethnohistoric reports. The Ruth Dunham Shepard Collection has extensive artifact material from the Coachella Valley with accompanying field notes. Additional archaeological materials from various locations are included.
Cahuilla history and culture of today are not ignored. Contemporary arts and artifacts are continually added to the collections.
Contact the museum for its latest information.
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