Basque Museum & Cultural Center
611 Grove St.
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 343-2671
www.basquemuseum.com

The Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides a look into the heritage of the Basque communities of Idaho and surrounding areas.

Boise, Idaho has long been a central location where Basque immigrants first congregated after coming to the United States from the Spanish Basque Region. As immigrants established their lives here, Basques became well known for their hard work and perseverance.

The Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides a look into the Basque heritage by exhibits, collections, and tours. As a cultural center, it's a gathering place for events and educational opportunities - in which people of all backgrounds can participate in Basque activities.

Located in downtown Boise, Idaho, the Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides an active central location for maintaining the Basque culture in the United States.

Boise Art Museum
670 Julia Davis Drive
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 345-8330
www.boiseartmuseum.org

Vision
The Boise Art Museum is nationally recognized for leadership, innovation and excellence in the visual arts.
Mission
The Boise Art Museum champions excellence in the visual arts through exhibitions, collections and educational experiences.

Discovery Center of Idaho
131 Myrtle Street
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: (208) 343-9895
(208) 303-0105
www.scidaho.org

Discover the Medical Mysteries inside you Explore the Science of Medical Imaging Imagine the Fantastic Voyage you'll take!
Ever wonder what kind of medical mysteries are going on inside of you? Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895 was the groundbreaking beginning of some fantastical investigations into the world beneath our skin. Under Your Skin, with hands-on exhibits, displays, and special events will put you behind the controls of medical imaging technologies to see and understand your amazing body as never before!

Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial
800 S. 8th Street
(adjacent to the Boise Public Library)
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 345-0304
www.idaho-humanrights.org

Our Mission
The Center's Mission is to promote respect for human dignity and diversity through education and to foster our individual responsibility to work for justice and peace.
We want you to be inspired with our message. We trust that you will find among these pages reasons—and tools—for taking action toward human rights advocacy in your neighborhood, in your school, in your workplace, in your family, in your state or province, in your country…and throughout your life.
Leaders of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center are state employees, educators, business and community leaders, artists, activists, students, religious leaders, and professionals who are dedicated to delivering our message and implementing our mission.
The Idaho Human Rights Education Center is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.

Idaho Black History Museum
508 Julia Davis Drive
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: (208) 433-0017
(208) 433-0048
www.ibhm.org

The Museum
Founded in 1995, the Idaho Black History Museum is a 501 (c)3 organization established to educate individuals about the history and culture of African Americans, with special emphasis on African Americans in Idaho. Housed in the historic St. Paul Baptist Church building and located in Boise's Julia Davis Park, the museum presents exhibits and provides educational and community outreach programs including lectures, films, workshops, literacy programs, and musical performances.

Idaho Botanical Garden
2355 N. Penitentiary Rd.
Boise, ID 83712
Toll-Free: (877) 527-3233
(208) 343-8649
www.idahobotanicalgarden.org

The Idaho Botanical Garden is a private, non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization, providing a beautiful environment for garden lovers, tourists, community events, weddings, school tours, and horticultural education. Our vision is to become a regional destination garden, providing a beautiful and peaceful educational environment, containing significant and notable plant collections. The Garden is a living museum, dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of gardening, horticulture and conservation, through plant collections and education programs within an aesthetic landscape.

Idaho Historical Museum
610 N. Julia Davis Drive
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 334-2120
www.idahohistory.net

The Idaho State Historical Museum, founded in 1907, is Idaho's largest and most visited museum. It has evolved from a simple collection of curios and relics sitting on shelves to the first museum in Idaho to be accredited by the American Association of Museums. Objects from the Museum's collection tell the story of Idaho from prehistoric times through the fur trade, the gold rush, and pioneer settlement to the present. Richly detailed interiors show how Idahoans in the late 19th and 20th centuries lived and conducted business. Exhibits about the state's Native American, Chinese and Basque populations are also presented. The museum is open throughout the year and is located in Julia Davis Park.

Idaho Military History Museum
4040 W. Guard St., Bldg. 303
Boise, ID 83705
Phone: (208) 422-4841
inghro.state.id.us

Purpose Of The Museum
The Idaho Military History Museum has been established for the purpose of "preservation, display and interpretation of military history and artifacts that have a geographical tie to the history of the people and state of Idaho".
The Idaho Military History Museum was opened in 1995 by the Idaho Military Historical Society.

Museum of Mining and Geology
2455 Old Penitentiary Road
Boise, ID 83712
(208) 368-9876
www.idahomuseum.org

Special exhibit areas include:
 What it is that makes Idaho the Gem State
 Rocks that glow in the dark
 The room of the ancient miners

Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site
2445 Old Penitentiary Road
Boise, ID 83712
(208) 334-2844
www.idahohistory.net

Idaho Territory was less than ten years old when the territorial prison was built east of Boise in 1870. The penitentiary grew from a single cellhouse into a complex of several distinctive buildings surrounded by a high sandstone wall. Convicts quarried the stone from the nearby ridges and completed all the later construction.
Over its century of operation, the penitentiary received more than 13,000 convicts, of whom 215 were women. Spurred in part by conditions that sparked a general riot in 1971 and an even more severe riot in 1973, the inmate population was moved to a modern penitentiary south of Boise and the Old Idaho Penitentiary was closed on December 3, 1973. After the Penitentiary closed in 1973, the site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Begin your visit with our video presentation recalling prison history, notorious inmates, and daily prison life. Once inside the Yard, imagine life in the foreboding sandstone cellhouses, see the contrasting beauty of the historic rose gardens, and view the effects of the 1973 riot. Visit Solitary Confinement, known as "Siberia," as well as Death Row and the Gallows. Exhibits are located throughout the site.Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the day's weather.

World Center for Birds of Prey
5668 West Flying Hawk Lane
Boise, ID 83709
(208) 362-8687
www.peregrinefund.org

Mission
Established in 1970, The Peregrine Fund works nationally and internationally, to conserve birds of prey in nature. We conserve nature by achieving results--results restoring species in jeopardy, conserving habitat, educating students, training conservationists, providing factual information to the public, and by accomplishing good science. We succeed through cooperation and hard-work, using common sense, being hands-on and non-political, and by emphasizing solutions. We are also cost effective--100% of all donations go directly to programs. The Peregrine Fund Board of Directors adopted a payout policy for earnings from our endowment which funds our administrative expenses.

World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725
Phone: (208) 343-7224
(208) 343-0831
www.sportshumanitarian.com

A visit to the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame will inspire and entertain. The Hall's museum lists the accomplishments and displays memorabilia from the inductees. The Hall of Fame is one of the only places where you can see an actual Heisman Trophy! Through a special arrangement with the Downtown Athletic Club of New York, the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame honors a Heisman Trophy winner each year for his outstanding accomplishments off the gridiron.

Zoo Boise
355 Julia Davis Drive
Boise, ID 83702
(208) 384-4260
www.cityofboise.org/parks/zoo

Zoo Boise Mission Statement:
The mission of Zoo Boise is to serve as an education and conservation institution that safely and humanely exhibits living animals for the purposes of: educating children and adults about animals, animal habitats, and their preservation; encouraging the conservation, protection and propagation of rare and endangered species and their respective habitats; providing the public with a recreational opportunity to view a variety of live animals exhibited in conditions that allow them to display their natural traits; providing an attraction for tourists and visitors; contributing to the bank of knowledge about animals through limited research.