Event Type: Single Event

Homeschool Day is your chance to experience a field trip at the High Desert Museum! Tour the museum, attend a Discovery Class (registration required), enjoy special educational programs and experience dynamic wildlife encounters. We will also have other special programs to make this the perfect day for homeschoolers to visit the Museum.  9:00 am – (more…)

Members are invited to this event to celebrate the opening of the new exhibition, Sensing Sasquatch. The exhibit explores Sasquatch’s past, present and future in the High Desert region through the lens of five Native artists. Leave your pop-culture notions behind as you learn about this “non-human other.”  Doors open at 6:00 pm  Hors d’oeuvres, (more…)

Welcoming Sensing Sasquatch What does Sasquatch — also known as Bigfoot — represent to you? The unknown? Adventure? Mystery? Opening Saturday, March 2, “Sensing Sasquatch” will explore the reclusive and elusive being’s past, present and future in the High Desert through an Indigenous lens. Works by five Indigenous artists will be on view, including: Phillip (more…)

Summer Hours BEGIN! The Museum will now be open from 9:00am – 5:00pm! Admission: $20, Ages 65+ $17, College Students with I.D. $17, Ages 3-12 $12, Ages 2 and younger free  (more…)

Photo courtesy of the United States Forest Service Natural History Pub: With Fire, Comes Smoke: Living in a Fire-Dependent Ecosystem  Fire plays an integral role in Central Oregon’s ecosystem. Some of the things we love most about our landscape, like towering Ponderosa pines, require frequent low-intensity fire to sustain. Fire practitioners implement prescribed burns in (more…)

Join us on Thursday, February 22 as artist, knowledge holder, and language expert Dr. Phillip Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce) discusses the deep cultural meanings that wolves hold for tribes in our region using objects from the Museum’s collection. We hope to see you there! Thursday, February 22, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm This event is (more…)

Annual Member Meeting Please join us for our Annual Member Meeting with Executive Director Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D to hear about the Museum’s recent accomplishments and upcoming plans. Afterward there will be festivities for Member Appreciation Night. This event is SOLD OUT! You can still join us for our Member Appreciation Night, also happening 2/13! To (more…)

  The greater sage-grouse is a primary health indicator for the sage-steppe, the largest ecosystem in the coterminous United States. Despite ongoing conservation efforts to control invasive plants and wildfire, sage-grouse populations continue to decline. Please join Dr. Josh Collins, Chair of the Sage (more…)