High Desert Museum

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A quieter time for children and adults who experience physical, intellectual and/or social disabilities to enjoy the High Desert Museum after hours. Explore the Museum’s newest exhibits and revisit your favorites.

The Guardians is a visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between humans and the rest of nature. This documentary interweaves the lives of monarch butterflies with a community in Mexico. Both depend on the same ancient forest for their survival and face an uncertain future. Gain a new perspective on the ecological challenges facing […]

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 of […]

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 […]

Join us online for an entertaining program, live and silent auctions, a raffle and more surprises at our annual fundraiser. Help make this year's High Desert Rendezvous a success and invite your friends!

Last chance for Raptors of the Desert Sky, Desert Dwellers and other summer programming!

Exhibition Closing: In Time’s Hum: The Art and Science of Pollination

Throughout their lives, ranchers Doc and Connie Hatfield were committed to partnerships and sustainable practices in the High Desert, and this annual lecture celebrates their work. This year features Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, a consulting firm that works in the agricultural sphere to bring social and environmental entrepreneursmore impact […]

Before the Civil War, Western states and territories became a battleground over the westward expansion of slavery and the status of free and enslaved Black people. Professor Stacey Smith, a historian at Oregon State University, will explore the enslavement of Black people in the West and African American resistance to slavery, as well as how […]