Event Type: Single Event

JUNE 28 – JULY 2  K-1st: Under Construction – This camp is sold out. Complete the waiting list form here. Humans aren’t the only builders. Learn about structures that other animals create including dams, webs and more! Explore forest, field and creek to look for animal homes and try your hand at building these natural structures. 2nd-3rd: Homestead (more…)

JUNE 21 – 25  K-1st: Five Senses – This camp is sold out. Complete the waiting list form here. Can you find your way along a trail just by using your sense of smell? Or figure out what an object is by using your sense of touch? This week you will taste, smell, hear, feel and see! Learn (more…)

Join us online on Saturday, August 28 for an entertaining program, live and silent auctions, a raffle and more surprises at our annual fundraiser. FREE for individuals, friends and family! Funds raised at the High Desert Rendezvous help support the Museum’s educational programs, ensuring the Museum continues to be a place where people and landscape (more…)

  Art in the West is an annual juried exhibition and silent auction featuring traditional and contemporary art that celebrates the landscapes, wildlife, people, cultures and history of the High Desert—a region that stretches from the eastern slope of the Cascades and Sierras in the west to the Wyoming Basin and Colorado Plateau in the east (more…)

  Join us for the final day of the exhibition Cosmic Microscapes: Seeing into Rocks from Oregon and Space. This exhibition blends art and science to reveal the breathtaking beauty of meteorites—rocks from space! University of Washington geochemist and meteoricist Dr. Tony Irving and photographer Neil Buckland combined forces to create extreme macroscopic, panoramic photographs (more…)

FREE admission for all dads! Be sure to reserve your room to roam. Made possible by   (more…)

Registration for this event is closed. For more than a decade, Portland General Electric (PGE) and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have been generating emissions-free electricity at the Pelton Round Butte hydropower project in Central Oregon. Did you know the project is also the site of an ambitious effort to reintroduce sustainable runs of (more…)

Registration for this event is closed. Join Dr. Doug Tallamy, entomologist and author of Nature’s Best Hope, for this lively discussion. A recent UN report predicts that as many as 1 million species will disappear from planet earth because of human activities. Many of these are insects and nearly all species at risk rely on (more…)

Don’t miss the final day of this year’s Kids Curate exhibition! The display is the work of fifth graders from Jewell Elementary School in Bend through the yearlong project incorporating science and art that culminates in an exhibit at the Museum. This year students learned how plants and animals use energy from the sun. They (more…)

You think you know beavers? Learn more about the ecosystem engineers on Wednesday, April 28 at 12:00 pm. Join our partners at the OSU Foundation for the virtual event. Get better acquainted with the Oregon state animal during OSU’s Dam Proud Day 2021: a day when Beavers (more…)