A single event that spans one or more consecutive days.
Calling all emerging, mid-career and established nonfiction writers! Don’t miss your opportunity to submit your writing to the 2025 Waterston Desert Writing Prize. The Prize honors creative nonfiction that illustrates artistic excellence, sensitivity to place and desert literacy, with the desert as both subject and setting. The Prize winner receives a $3,000 cash award and (more…)
Join our wildlife team to learn about and photograph the wildlife in our care. Opportunities for portrait-style and action photography with raptors and mammals. Participants are welcome to explore what to expect and techniques for success during an optional preliminary Zoom meeting on Friday, April 25 at 6:30 pm. 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Saturday, (more…)
From advocacy to aviation and kayaking, Pathfinders is a short film that explores how Thyreicia Simtustus, Kahmussa Green and Kiahna Allen are finding their own paths in balancing Native and non-Native worlds. Join us for a discussion with the director LaRonn Katchia and the young leaders from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs featured in (more…)
What do wind, water, sun, and geothermal energy all have in common? They are each a source of renewable energy! Opening on Earth Day, this new digital interactive station teaches visitors about renewable energy technologies in the High Desert region. Wind turbines, dams, solar panels and geothermal facilities reduce the burning of fossil fuels. Still, (more…)
It’s time for a playdate at our brand-new E. L. Wiegand Ponderosa Playscape! The new play area, made possible by the E. L. Wiegand Foundation and the Visit Bend Sustainability Fund, features jumbo-sized elements of the ponderosa pine lifecycle, from pine needle bundles to a critter-ladened giant pinecone. Celebrate this fun new addition to (more…)
Award-winning author of Becoming Little Shell and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray will discuss Mino-bimaadiziwin — the Anishinaabe word for “the good life.” At its simplest, it is living a life in balance with the world around us. How do we achieve the “good” life? What are our responsibilities to our communities and our relatives (more…)
Visitors 65 and older are invited to enjoy the Museum for FREE! The Museum will also be open to the general public. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm FREE for seniors 65 and older. (more…)
Please join us for a special evening for families and children of all ages to engage with fun and hands-on activities centered on the exhibition Patterns at Play: Fractals in Nature. This is your chance to experience fractals using your many senses! Food and beverages will be available. 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Members (more…)
Every year, thousands of animals are hit by motor vehicles while crossing Oregon’s highways. One road is particularly dangerous: Highway 20 between Bend and Suttle Lake, where the highest densities of deer and elk vehicle collisions occur in the entire state. Despite these dangers on Highway 20 and elsewhere, Oregon has the lowest number of (more…)
Experience the exhibition Frank S. Matsura: Portraits from the Borderland through exciting family-friendly activities. Photographer Dean Davis will provide an opportunity to peer through a camera to see what Matsura saw. Other hands-on activities will engage the entire family in exploring his portraits and what makes all of us unique. 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (more…)