Desert Caballeros Western Museum

Desert Caballeros Western Museum’s
Annual educational programming for children/youth include:

Culture Path:

• “Barefoot to Boots, Those Who Have Walked Our Land” Culture Path programs take place at the Museum’s 160 acre “D.C. Boyd Ranch” property north of Wickenburg along the Hassayampa River.
• Developed in conjunction with elementary teachers, meeting the 4th grade Arizona State Standards for Social Studies.
• Field trips to the ranch are designed to create experiential education in areas of history, geology, biology, and American Indian culture.
• Hands-on projects, led by field instructors, include pottery making, gold panning, rock and mineral identification, native plant identification, and creative writing.

Culture Path at The Museum

• A scaled down version of the Ranch program, but located at the Museum.

Art Ranch: Camp Imagination

• This camp occurs during the first two weeks of June and is held at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts in Wickenburg. The Museum organizes the visual arts component of the camp, presenting an array of art workshops for all campers. Over one hundred thirty campers, between the first and twelfth grades, take drama, dance, chorale, art, and instrumental classes. Together, these workshops prepare the students for the camp finale, a theatrical performance before a public audience.

School Tours

• These are organized class tours, free of charge, for schoolchildren and teenagers from all grade levels. A trained docent guides groups through the Museum’s art and history collections.

Fiesta de Septiembre – Kids Zona

• In collaboration with the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce’s annual Fiesta de Septiembre, the Museum organizes an arts and crafts program titled “Kids Zona” at during the fiesta at the Wickenburg Community Center.

Cowboy Poetry

• As part of Wickenburg’s annual “Cowboy Christmas Poet Gathering”, the Museum organizes a “Children’s Cowboy Poetry Contest.” The Museum educational outreach includes lessons with and presentations by two professional cowboy poets, to teach nearly 1,200 students from Wickenburg and the outlining areas of Congress, Aguila, and Morristown about cowboy poetry, western and local heritage, and the arts. Students submit their original cowboy poems in the student contest at the “Cowboy Christmas Poet Gathering.” Nine winners are selected to present their work during the “Cowboy Christmas Poetry Gathering,” which is held each December at the Wickenburg Community Center.