July 21, 2010
August at the High Desert Museum
New Art, Authors, Mining Day & Bat Walk!
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July 16, 2010
Internationally Recognized Expert in Raptors Joins
Museum
Award-winning raptor researcher and filmmaker James Dawson
expanding Museum’s live animal programs.
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January 11 2010
New Vice President to Expand Educational Programming at High
Desert Museum
Dana Whitelaw’s global experience in wildlife
and cultural studies to enhance Museum’s educational
role.
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September 9 2009
Native American Art Workshops, New Strange Matter Exhibit and
More This Fall at High Desert Museum
New Native American weaving and basketry workshops,
hands-on science exhibit and more!
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September 8 2009
High Desert Museum Honors Renowned Archaeologist with Earle A.
Chiles Award
Dr. Dennis Jenkins’ discovery of 14,300-year-old
human feces specimens in Oregon sheds new light on how and when
the first people came to North America.
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August 28, 2009
The exhibit Beyond the Saddle: The Artistic Journey of Edward
Burns Quigley opens at the High Desert Museum
The show includes 20 works, from traditional oil
paintings, cartoons, and World War I era works to magazine
covers.
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August 25, 2009
High Desert Museum Reports Increased Visitor Numbers, Value to
Community
The standout success of the Museum this year, its
singular value to the region’s tourism, and its value to
this community is a result of strategic steps taken by the
Museum.
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August 14, 2009
Native American Art Through Ancestry
Works of widely recognized Native American
artists’ interpretations of Museum artifacts
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February 23, 2009
Meet Live Wolves and the West’s Wolf Experts at the High
Desert Museum
New Lecture and Film Series March 7
through May 9
Visitors can meet live wolves and wolf experts known
throughout the West and around the world at the new High Desert
Perspectives on Wolves: Lecture and Film Series starts March
7.
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January 29, 2009
Owlets of America’s Only Captive Breeding Northern
Spotted Owls Expected to Leave High Desert Museum on February
2.
Last chance for visitors can see the owlets, separated
from parents in their “teen hangout.” Owlets to
help save controversial threatened species in British
Columbia.
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January 20, 2009
High Desert Museum’s Celebrates Oregon Sesquicentennial
and Native American Culture on Feb. 14.
Oregon birthday cake, author reading, winners of
fourth-grade writing contest and family fun exploring Native
American culture of the High Desert.
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January 20, 2009
Rock Art Perspectives: Pictographs and Petroglyphs at the High
Desert Museum February 13 through May 31.
Archaeologists, photographers and Native American artists
explore the beauty and significance of early Native American
art carvings and paintings in the Columbia plateau, Great Basin
and across America.
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January 5, 2009
Living with Predators: Bears and Wolves Opens January 23 at
High Desert Museum.
Feel as if you are surrounded by a pack of wolves, and
bears that squabble, coo, chuckle and even cry. Discover your
role in these animals’ futures.
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November 24, 2008
High Desert Museum Honors Ecologist Dr. William Ripple with
Earle A. Chiles Award.
Dr. William Ripple is a national leader in
understanding the effects of large predators on ecosystems and
the effects of wolf reintroduction in the West.
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October 28, 2008
Melissa Hochschild Joins High Desert Museum as Vice President
of Communications.
Hochschild brings 25 years of marketing, advertising,
and research experience at top national and local companies to
new post.
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April 15, 2008
Touchmark Sponsors First Free Day for Seniors at High Desert
Museum, Wednesday April 30
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April 11, 2008
America's Only Captive Breeding Northern Spotted Owls Hatch
Chick at the High Desert Museum
Visitors can see the newborn chick nesting with its
parents. Second chick due by
Monday.
Owlets to help save this controversial threatened species.
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more
April 3, 2008
Spotted Owls Expecting Chicks
America's Only Captive Breeding Pair of Northern Spotted Owls
Ready to HatchNew Chicks at the High Desert Museum. The chicks
are expected to help boost numbers of this controversial
threatened species.
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February 8, 2008
Take your Valentine to the High Desert Museum
Lunch and learn about animal mating habits of the High Desert,
the steamy side of frontier life. Stroll nature trails with
amorous wildlife, and explore exhibit halls.
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more
January 30, 2008
Portland Opera To Go Presents La Bohème March 20
at the High Desert Museum
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November 23, 2007
High Desert Museum Appoints Janeanne A. Upp As President.
Upp led major metropolitan museums through
expansions, achieving financial success.
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November 7, 2007
High Desert Museum Names Gila Monsters, Announces Contest
Winners
Pumice and Obsidian are the winning names for the
Museum's new, venomous reptiles.
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November 1, 2007
High Desert Museum Offers Free, Special Program for
Rainbow Club Nov. 10.
National Adoption Month, Reading Program Celebrated Nov. 17 at
Deschutes Public Library
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October 3, 2007
High Desert Museum to Close Praegitzer Gallery in Downtown
Bend
Museum Chooses to Exhibit New and Bequeathed Works at
Main Museum Only.
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October 3, 2007
Venomous gila monsters debut in their new exhibit at the High
Desert Museum on Oct. 6 with keeper talks at 11 a.m. and
1p.m.
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July 16, 2007
High Desert Museum Celebrates Area's 100-Year-Old Working
Ranches. Juried show of plein-air art Aug. 3-31, and live show
at the Tower Theater Aug. 18.
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July 12, 2007
High Desert Museum President Resigns After Achieving Museum
Growth
Museum to further build attendance, endowment, and
planned giving.
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June 28, 2007
Rare, Renowned Glass Art Exhibit opens at the High Desert
Museum on July 12
William Morris: Native Species, works
inspired by the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest,
including Central Oregon.
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June 7, 2007
High Desert Museum Offers 10% Admission Discount to Active
Military Personnel
Discount policy kicks off as Museum presents Living
History recreation of the 19th Century military in the High
Desert.
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June 7, 2007
The High Desert Museum Partners with Motorcycles of Bend to
Raffle Off a BMC Holigan Chopper
Spot the Chopper around Central Oregon this
Summer!
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June 1, 2007
High Desert Rendezvous -- Now a Two-Night Event!
This year, the High Desert Museum presents High Desert
Rendezvous as two nights of festivities.
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June 1, 2007
The Best of the West: Rendezvous Art & Design Show &
Auction
The High Desert Museum's second annual Rendezvous Art
& Design Show & Auction features exceptional Western
fine art, beautiful jewelry and accessories and exquisite,
high-end custom furniture.
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May 30, 2007
High Desert Museum Kicks Off Summer With New Daily Programs,
June 8
Wildlife shows and encounters; historic, working
sawmill; guided nature walks; living history peformances;
children's treasure hunts, storytelling and more!
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May 24, 2007
High Desert Museum to Introduce Weekly Summer Pass, New Entry
Fees, June 1
Rising costs of caring for extensive wildlife, art and
artifacts collections prompt first increase in more than three
years at nationally recognized Museum.
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January 22, 2007
High Desert Museum Hires New Vice
President
Former director of Nevada State Museum and
Historical Society to raise Museum's national profile and build
on growing attendance figures
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January 12, 2007
Photo Exhibition at High Desert Museum Praegitzer Gallery Opens
Jan 31 Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long
Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch
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December 11, 2006
Support the Museum While Shopping Online
Access online stores through www.HDMeMall.com
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October 18, 2007
Last Chance to See Real West Photography Exhibition at High
Desert Museum
Lee Moorhouse Show Closing November 26
November is the last opportunity to take in Pendleton
Photographer: Lee Moorhouse and the Real West at the High
Desert Museum
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September 30, 2006
Have a Wild (and Free) Day at the High Desert
Museum
Local Museum Joins Hundreds Across the Nation
in Smithsonian Celebration
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September 22, 2006
The Eagle has Landed
Rescued Bald Eagle at the Museum with support from
LibertyBank
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June 1, 2006
Art about Agriculture: Designing from Nature Opens
June 10 at the High Desert Museum with High Desert Horticulture
Day
Fine art, expert Gardeners, Children's plant and Bug
Stations, Guided Nature Walks, Native Plant sale, Pioneer
Gardeners and More!
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April 23, 2006
High Desert Museum Mustangs Adopted, New Mustang Named
Sierra and Sundance were adopted, Sunday, April 23, by
David and Camille Jampolsky and their family from Cresell,
Ore.
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April 21, 2006
High Desert Museum Mustang Moniker Contest Winner Announced
New Mustang Named "Buckaroo," Mustang Adoption set for
Sunday, April 23
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April 1, 2006
President's Message
Museum on a Mission by Forrest B. Rodgers
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March 31, 2006
High Desert Museum Announces Plan To Open Downtown Bend
Gallery
Timber and high-tech entrepreneur bequeaths Western
Art Collection to Museum.
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March 10, 2006
High Desert Museum's "Rendezous Roadhouse" Rolls Out for
Makeover
Vintage trailer to get makeover and be auctioned at
High Desert Rendezvous benefit and gala, August 12, 2006.
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March 1, 2006
High Desert Museum's First Mining Heritage Day, March 11
Pan for fool's gold, trade it in at Silver City, meet
1880s miners, learn "rockhounding," meet a rock artist and hear
the band Blackstrap!
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December 20, 2005
High Desert Museum
Temporarily Closed Weekdays, Jan. 2-6 and 9-13
For Cleaning and Maintenance; Open Every Weekend
Sprucing Up Exhibits, Systems
Maintenance and Other Work Kicks Off New Year.
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December 14, 2005
The High Desert Museum's
Desert Nights Gala - Wildly Enchanting!
Springtime Revelry Abounds at the Third Annual Starlit
Gala Evening.
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December 1, 2005
High Desert Museum Presents
2005 Earle A. Chiles Award
The High Desert Museum is proud to announce the
22nd annual Earle A. Chiles Award will go to Dr. Catherine
Fowler for her 35-year career in ethnographic history of the
Great Basin, which has been essential in furthering the
understanding of people's interaction with this arid
landscape.
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November 15, 2005
High Desert Museum Is Home to
a New Lynx, Creates Naming Contest
Meet the High
Desert Museum's newest big cat --- a lynx --- and help us give
him a name. Close-up encounters with the lynx happen at
11:15 a.m., every
Wednesday and Sunday. The Museum's wildlife experts will be on hand to tell all the intriguing details
of this high-altitude cat, and to answer visitors'
questions.
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September 15, 2005
High Desert Museum Falcon Missing
Coty, a gyrfalcon/peregrine falcon hybrid, is
missing from the High Desert Museum. He flew off at about 2
p.m.on Tuesday, after a training line
on his leg broke while wildlife staff were training him for the
Museum's new flight show.
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