Guests will take part in a 45-minute museum tour followed by individual discovery.
Participants are limited to 12 for this up-close and personal tour of our beautiful and small museum. You will see Idaho rocks and minerals, a touch-screen map of Idaho Mining Districts, an authentic mining camp, a Buzz Saw shark exhibit, Meteorite collection, wall graphics explaining Lake Idaho/Lake Bonneville, Blacklight display, as well as information on the Yellowstone hotspot. Plus, the museum has a seismograph that constantly records earthquakes from around the world!
You’ll have an opportunity to shop in our extraordinary Gift Shop with prices starting at 50 cents. We have books, rocks, minerals, rock picks, gold pans, jewelry and items for children, and more.
Please contact operations@idahomuseum.org if you have questions.
Masks are required.
Pre-registration is required. Click here for tickets
The Museum will be showcasing its own Meteorite Collection, plus offering fun meteor and comet activities as well as a scavenger hunt for the kids. As part of your visit, “space” ice cream will be served!
There will be three sessions at 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00pm with 25 people maximum per session and masks are optional.
This is a great event for families!
Pre-registration is required. Click here for tickets
Guests will take part in a 45-minute museum tour followed by individual discovery.
Participants are limited to 12 for this up-close and personal tour of our beautiful and small museum. You will see Idaho rocks and minerals, a touch-screen map of Idaho Mining Districts, an authentic mining camp, a Buzz Saw shark exhibit, Meteorite collection, wall graphics explaining Lake Idaho/Lake Bonneville, Blacklight display, as well as information on the Yellowstone hotspot. Plus, the museum has a seismograph that constantly records earthquakes from around the world!
You’ll have an opportunity to shop in our extraordinary Gift Shop with prices starting at 50 cents. We have books, rocks, minerals, rock picks, gold pans, jewelry and items for children, and more.
Please contact operations@idahomuseum.org if you have questions.
We hope to see you soon!
Pre-registration is required. Click here for tickets
This talk will address this year’s current snowpack and projected water supplies or shortages.
We’ll look at early seasonal outlooks for this winter, if they worked and how they can be used to mitigate impacts for the coming summer. We’ll discuss the current drought in Idaho and across the West and programs in Idaho to help mitigate droughts – cloud seeding and aquifer recharge.
A lot of the science of monitoring snow to predict streamflow is about relationships. These are statistical relationships used to forecast river volumes but also an understanding of snow to flow relationships, and La Nina / El Nino patterns. With the greater degree of climatic variability that we are seeing, we need to continue learning from our past to help mitigate impacts from these future weather challenges that we are now seeing.
Registration is required to attend this event. Click here for tickets
About the Lecturer: Ron Abramovich attended Colorado State University, graduating with a degree in Watershed Sciences in 1986. He worked for the USGS in southern Colorado, then a couple years later accepted a job offer from the USDA Soil Conservation Service Snow Survey Office in Salt Lake City.
In 1991, the Boise, Idaho Snow Survey Office advertised their first ever Water Supply Specialist position. Ron applied, got it and won the best job anyone could have. He was with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Idaho Snow Survey from 1991 to 2019. Since retiring in 2019 he spends his free time hiking and skiing.
