Shop with purpose and support the High Desert Museum on Museum Store Sunday! The Silver Sage Trading Winter Sale’s final day includes some of your favorite Museum store items on sale. When you purchase a gift from the museum store, you help to sustain the museum’s service to the public. Remember, if your destination is Silver (more…)
A healthy garden begins with healthy soil. But what is the recipe for good soil? A mix of plants, animals, fungi, moisture and an understanding of your soil’s individual history are necessary to support a productive garden. Join Garrett L. Duyck, Basin Resource Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to learn about soil management (more…)
The wonder of winter always reveals itself in the footprints we make in the first snowfall of the season. What’s on your feet? Which socks help make the moment? Wear your coziest combo to explore the Soil Alive! exhibition, decorate cookies, scavenger hunt, listen to stories, enjoy toddler dance parties and photo-boothing like a pro (more…)
What brims with adventure more than daydreams of winter in the West? Nothing puts a gleam in your eye and a smile on your face faster than chasing first tracks or abominable snow-people. What are you wearing in that moment? Your most adventurous sweater, of course. Prepare to traverse the Drawn West exhibition, make your (more…)
How do you spell winter love? Snowology! Icy snowflakes on the tongue? Like totally. The soothing sound of snow falling? For suuure. The wahoo of an impromptu snow angel? Oh yeah. Wrap yourself in the colors of the season (think silver or white – pajamas, onesies, track suits, all are welcome!) as we savor the (more…)
The Museum will be closed for the holiday. See you at 10:00 am on Friday, December 26! (more…)
Nominations close for the Schnitzer Prize of the West, which honors and celebrates uncommon collaboration and innovation in solving the legacy challenges of the American West. The Schnitzer Prize winner will receive a $50,000 cash prize at the inaugural Prize Ceremony held in Portland, Oregon, and Prize Reception in Bend, Oregon in the spring of (more…)
Submissions open for 2026 Waterston Desert Writing Prize! The Museum begins accepting submissions for the 2026 Waterston Desert Writing Prize. This will be the 12th anniversary of the prize, which honors creative nonfiction that illustrates artistic excellence, sensitivity to place and desert literacy, with deserts as both subject and setting. The submission deadline is May (more…)
The Holiday Farm Fire along the Mackenzie River burned over 173,000 acres in 2020, one of the largest wildfires in Oregon history. Join photographer David Paul Bayles and disturbance ecologist Fred Swanson as they share the story of forest regeneration and fuel buildup in the face of climate uncertainty through scientific observations and fine art (more…)
The Museum will be closed for staff development. We’ll reopen at 10:00 am on Friday, January 9! (more…)