Past Events

May 7

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Day on First Friday

May 15

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Blue Star Museum Program Starts

May 31

All day

Museum Closed for Memorial Day

Jun 3

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

“Cowgirl Up!” Zoom Party #2

Jun 4

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

June Family Day

Jun 7

All day

Museum Closed

Jun 20

All day

Father’s Day

Jul 1

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

“Cowgirl Up!” Zoom Party #3

Jul 4

All day

Independence Day (Museum Closed)

Aug 5

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Zoom Party #4

Aug 21

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Desert Wildlife And Safety

Sep 18

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day!

Oct 1

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Fridays

Oct 14

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Arizona Humanities Zoom Lecture: “For the Love of Turquoise”

Oct 19

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Lecture: Horror on the Hassayampa: The 1890 Walnut Grove Dam Disaster

Oct 26

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Dia del los Muertos Ofrenda

Oct 30

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Apache Stories Exhibition Opens

Nov 5

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Wickenburg Massacre: Who Dunit? 150 yr. Anniversary

Nov 5

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Family Fridays

Nov 9

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Taste of the Desert, Lecture with Bernadine McCollum

Nov 16

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Sketching in the Galleries with artist Rick McGill

Nov 18

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Today’s Wild West, Lecture with Mark Bedor

Nov 22

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Changes to Museum Hours of Operation Start Today

Nov 26

November 26, 2021 @ 10:00 am - November 28, 2021 @ 3:00 pm

Rick Rowley Trunk Show

Nov 26

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Black Friday

Nov 27

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Small Business Saturday

Nov 28

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Museum Store Sunday

Dec 3

9:00 am - 10:00 pm

Members’ AB Seasonz Trunk Show Preview

Dec 3

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Family Fridays

Dec 3

10:00 am - 7:00 pm

AB Seazonz Trunk Show

Dec 4

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Students’ Cowboy Poetry

Dec 7

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

How to Read a Quilt, Lecture with Lenna DeMarco

Dec 10

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Lecture with Bob Boze Bell

Dec 18

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

“Bill Anton Paints the West” Opens to the Public

Dec 28

December 28, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - December 29, 2021 @ 4:00 pm

Cox Charities kids’ holiday workshop

Jan 2

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Desert Caballeros Express Display: Last Day

Jan 7

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Family Fridays

Jan 7

January 7 @ 10:00 am - January 9 @ 5:00 pm

The Artistry of Oaxaca and Mata Ortiz trunk show

Jan 15

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

heART of the West Gala, 2022

$175.00

Jan 17

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Desert Adventure Tour: Ghost Towns

Jan 18

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Sketching in the Gallery with Artist Rick McGill

Jan 21

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Lynn Downey, Dude Ranch Tales

Jan 25

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Planned Giving Free Workshop

Jan 27

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Bill Anton Gallery Talk

Feb 5

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Appraisal Day with Sean Morton

Feb 10

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Eduardo Pagán, The Curious and Complicated Contours of Race and Society in Wickenburg and the Arizona Territory

Feb 14

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Sandy Sunseri and Chris Glenn, Chilis and Chocolate 

Feb 15

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Sketching in the Gallery with Artist Rick McGill

Feb 24

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

SOLD OUT: Desert Adventure Tour: Wickenburg Area Guest Ranches I

Feb 25

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dave Stamey in Concert

Mar 2

March 2 @ 9:00 am - March 3 @ 5:00 pm

CANCELLED: Artists’ Retreat at Boyd Ranch

Mar 4

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Family Friday

Mar 10

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Apache Film Panel

Mar 15

9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Desert Adventure Tour: Constellation Road

Mar 17

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Sustaining Circles’ Botanical Tour with Dick Fredrickson

Mar 25

March 25 @ 10:00 am - March 27 @ 5:00 pm

Cowgirl Up! Opening Weekend

Apr 1

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Family Fridays

Apr 5

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Inaugural Western Women of Distinction Luncheon

Apr 8

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Bruce Meier, Saddlemaking

Apr 13

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

America’s Longest War: The Apache Wars, 1849-1924

Apr 14

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Members’ Appreciation Night

Apr 21

April 21 @ 9:00 am - April 22 @ 4:00 pm

Simplifying the Painting Process from Photos with Linda Glover Gooch

Apr 25

April 25 @ 10:00 am - April 30 @ 11:30 am

Congressional Arts Competition for Arizona’s 4th Congressional District

May 6

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

May Family Friday

May 8

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Mother’s Day

May 18

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Marking International Museum Day 2022: The Power of Museums

May 21

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Armed Forces Day, Start of Annual Blue Star Museum Program

May 26

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

“Grasp a Glance” Artist Demonstration by V…. Vaughan

May 30

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Memorial Day: Closed

Jun 3

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

June Family Friday: Plant a Sunflower!

Jun 19

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Father’s Day at the DCWM!

Jul 4

All day

Independence Day (National Holiday)

Jul 23

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

The National Day of the Cowboy

Jul 29

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

West of Center Exhibition Reception

Aug 20

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

AZ Herpetological Society Presentation: Arizona Wildlife

Oct 7

11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Bearcat Family Friday

Oct 14

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Free Movie Screening: “Mr. Conservative”

Oct 14

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Members’ Appreciation Reception

Oct 18

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Sketching in the Gallery with Artist Rick McGill

Oct 19

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

“Arizona Mythical Creatures” with Dr. Eduardo Pagán

Oct 28

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Mexican Folk Art Exhibition Members’ Preview

Oct 29

11:00 am - 2:30 pm

Mexican Folk Art Opening Day Celebration

Oct 30

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Giddy Up Go Gala

Nov 1

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Spanish speaking tour of “Mexican Folk Art”

Nov 4

10:00 am - 1:30 pm

Bearcat Family Friday presented by The Etnyre Foundation

Nov 5

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Wickenburg Home and Garden Tour

Nov 5

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Wickenburg Home and Garden Tour

Nov 10

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

50th Anniversary of the Desert Caballeros Western Museum Fire Discussion, Led by Dr. Eduardo Pagán

Nov 11

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Veteran’s Day, Vets Get in Free

Nov 15

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Sketching in the Gallery with Artist Rick McGill

Nov 18

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Author Lynn Downey: “Ranchers, Dudines, Writers, and Riders: The Story of Women in Dude Ranching”

Nov 19

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Desert Caballeros Express Display

Nov 24

All day

Closed for Thanksgiving Day

Nov 25

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Black Friday at Ranch Dressing and the Musem Store

Nov 26

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Small Business Saturday at Ranch Dressing and the Museum Store

Nov 27

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Museum Store Sunday

Nov 28

11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Museum Store Sunday at Ranch Dressing and the Museum Store

Nov 30

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Plein Air Demonstration with Artist Rick McGill

Dec 2

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

BearCat Family Friday

Dec 8

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Lecture: Nuestra Virgin de Guadalupe