It’s warm and wondrous inside the High Desert Museum!
Join us after hours every Thursday in December (excluding Christmas Day) for a festive night out with Winter Nights.
During Winter Nights, the Museum will remain open until 7:00 pm with seasonal themes, cookie decorating, storytelling, drink tastings, music, a chance to experience new exhibitions and engaging activities for all ages!
The Rimrock Café will be open for folks to grab a treat and Silver Sage Trading, the Museum store, will also be open for all your holiday shopping needs. Museum visitors can also look forward to regional craft beverage vendors sampling their seasonal concoctions!
Every Thursday, December 4 – 18, 2025
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Café closes at 6:30 pm.
Adults and Member guests with RSVP: $12 | Adults and Member guests at door: $14
Ages 3-12 with RSVP or at door: $6, Ages 2 and under: Free
Members get in FREE! Please RSVP so we don’t run out of cookies!
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
Footprints in the Snow
The wonder of winter always reveals itself in the footprints we make in the first snowfall of the season. What’s on your feet? Which socks help make the moment? Wear your coziest combo to explore the Soil Alive! exhibition, decorate cookies, scavenger hunt, listen to stories, enjoy toddler dance parties and photo-boothing like a pro foot model.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11
Winter in the West
What brims with adventure more than daydreams of winter in the West? Nothing puts a gleam in your eye and a smile on your face faster than chasing first tracks or abominable snow-people. What are you wearing in that moment? Your most adventurous sweater, of course. Prepare to traverse the Drawn West exhibition, make your own map, brave the scavenger hunt and have a listen to a good yarn. Cookie decorating, gift wrapping, toddler dance parties, beverage tastings, and photo-boothing like a boss included.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18
Snowology!
How do you spell winter love? Snowology! Icy snowflakes on the tongue? Like totally. The soothing sound of snow falling? For suuure. The wahoo of an impromptu snow angel? Oh yeah. Wrap yourself in the colors of the season (think silver or white – pajamas, onesies, track suits, all are welcome!) as we savor the ways winter can be warm and wonderful. We’ll start with cookie decorating, gift wrapping, dance parties, beverage tastings, and photo-boothing like Jack Frost.
