The Palm Springs Art Museum has shared an update on the future of the Aluminaire House three years after acquiring the Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher masterpiece to its permanent collection.

The home, which had been lingering in a local storage space since 2017, will now be reassembled and displayed in the museum's south parking lot. ADA compliance mandates had postponed the project even further after the museum was forced to refabricate many of the materials used in its construction, an effort that was not made possible until recently thanks to an ongoing $2.6 million capital campaign effort. According to the museum, $2.3 million in funding has been generated so far.

The house will be erected and placed on view in February 2024, following the opening of a retrospective exhibition of Frey’s other modernist designs around the Coachella Valley on January 13, 2024.

The museum’s Executive Director and CEO, Adam Lerner, commented it would be a “tremendous contribution to the cultural landscape of Palm Springs,” adding that its long-awaited installation “represents a significant new phase in the museum's engagement with our community's extraordinary passion for architecture.”

Originally conceived of as a case study for prefabricated affordable housing, the design of the home uses donated mass-manufactured components like sheet metal to achieve a low-cost construction that can be reproduced at scale. 

Museum board members L.J. Cella and Leo Marmol of Marmol Radziner will oversee the installation and exhibit. Brad Dunning is the curator of the retrospective. The museum is hoping the house can add a renewed source of visitors' interest to its already-strong architecture and design holdings.