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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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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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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