Event Category: Events

The Museum will be closed for the holiday. See you at 10:00 am on Friday, December 26! (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…)

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…)

The images we see from the James Webb Space Telescope are more than just a picture. They are the result of billions of photons filtered, counted and interpreted by astronomers. How do astronomers know what they’re looking at when objects can be specks, or raw data are just lines, spikes and dots? Join Dr. Brandon (more…)

Step back into the 1920s for a night where suede meets silk and fringe is everywhere. A Fringe Affair celebrates those icons of Americana — the cowboy and the flapper — as they meet at the edge of acceptability, trading the constraints of polite society for freedom, self-expression, and lives defined by movement, music, and (more…)