A single event that spans one or more consecutive days.
Registration for this event is closed. In 2019, professional racer Jessi Combs, who is included in the exhibit Daredevils, set a new land speed record in Oregon’s Alvord Desert. Tragically, she died while setting this record. The Jessi Combs Foundation has gone on to honor (more…)
Kids in kindergarten – 5th grade will explore art, cultures and science. Museum and state safety protocols are in place to help keep campers and staff healthy. To learn more about our coronavirus precautions, contact info@highdesertmuseum.org. Don’t forget that Museum Members receive a 20% discount on all Kids Camps. Click here to become a Member. In order to (more…)
Registration for this event is closed. In celebration of Black History Month, join us for the virtual program Maxville Today: Connecting our Past, Present and Future. Join Gwen Trice, the executive director of Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center in Joseph, Oregon, as she uncovers a previously hidden history. Trice will share stories of African Americans (more…)
The Museum is closed Thursdays and Fridays through December. Please check back for updates! (more…)
Despite the closure, retail is still open and so is Silver Sage Trading for our annual Member sale! Members receive 20% off most merchandise, and it’s the perfect opportunity to get started on your holiday shopping. No need to pay admission when shopping at Silver Sage Trading! (more…)
Attention Museum members! Ideal gifts await, and during this time members receive 20 percent off most merchandise. Those coming to exclusively shop at Silver Sage Trading may enter for free. Check in at Admissions. Sale ends Sunday, December 4. Open daily from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. (more…)
This event is sold out. Animals influence human lives in myriad ways. How are we like, or different from, other species? Can we learn from them? Why do we treat some so differently from others? Participate in a curator-facilitated conversation about our relationship with animals large and small, wild and domestic. Share your own thoughts (more…)
Join us for the opening 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…)
Don’t miss you last chance to explore the work of Italian muralist Hitnes and The Image Hunter: On the Trail of John James Audubon. (more…)
In the Pleistocene era, a mammal that was up to eight feet long and 220 pounds roamed what is now the High Desert and beyond. One incisor tooth excavated from Oregon’s South Yamhill River in 2017 measured three inches long. This massive creature, Castoroides ohioensis, was the giant beaver, ancestor of the modern North American beaver, Castor (more…)