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

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!

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 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 […]

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 […]

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.

Free admission for all dads! Get timed entry: highdesertmuseum.org/tickets

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 salmon and steelhead to the Deschutes […]

Join Dr. Doug Tallamy, entomologist and author of Nature’s Best Hope, for a lively discussion. A recent UN report predicts that because of human activities, as many as 1 million species will disappear from the planet, many of which are insects. Tallamy will remind us of the essential roles insects play and describe the simple […]

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 […]