The nationally acclaimed High Desert Museum is dedicated to broadening the understanding of the High Desert's wildlife, culture, art and natural resources. In doing so, it strives to promote thoughtful decision making to sustain the region's natural and cultural heritage.

Would you have made it as a fur trader? Would you have survived the hot and dusty Oregon Trail? What was it like to live as a Northern Paiute? Come and find out at our indoor and outdoor exhibits...

...Get inside our outdoor tipi. Wind through a dark mine shaft. Pet the heirloom goats at our working homestead. Smell the fresh pine logs being cut at our 19th-century, steam-powered sawmill.

The High Desert Museum's 53,000-square-foot main building anchors a quarter-mile trail that winds along a tranquil stream and through aspens and ponderosa pines. Guests may walk this trail to reach 32,000 square feet of exhibits and animal habitats.

Mission
Through exhibits, wildlife, and living history, the High Desert Museum creates learning experiences to help audiences discover their connection to the past, their role in the present, and their responsibility to the future