Ski Museum Directory
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
The Ski Museums of the World guidebook is organized alphabetically first by country, and then by city/town. (For example, within the United States, you will find the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame listed under Ishpeming, rather than Michigan.) Within each nation’s listing, the dedicated ski museums appear in the first section, followed by other museums, collections and libraries that contain ski-history material. Museums or collections that are in storage, or have recently closed, are listed at the end of the guide.
Click here to read an overview of this guide by author and ski historian E. John B. Allen
Publication of this guidebook was partially supported by a generous grant from the Marc Hodler Foundation in Switzerland.
Red Wing, Minnesota
The American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame and MuseumAddress:Red Wing, Minnesota 55066 United States Contact: St. James Hotel Email: info@americanskijumping.com Telephone: () 651 388 2846 Website: www.americanskijumping.com History of jumping, especially Scandinavian immigrants. Hall of Fame. |
Crested Butte, Colorado
The Winter ArchiveAddress:Crested Butte, Colorado 81224 United States Contact: Paul Hooge Email: khooge2000@yahoo.com Telephone: () 970 799 6797 Website: 4,000 square feet of winter-related exhibits and archived private collection. |
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Tread of Pioneers MusuemAddress:Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80487 United States Contact: Candice Bannister Email: cbannister@treadofpioneers.org Telephone: () 970 879 2214 Website: www.treadofpioneers.org |
Ishpeming, Michigan
U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of FameAddress:Ishpeming, Michigan 49849 United States Contact: Justin Koski Email: administrator@skihall.com Telephone: () 906 485 6323 Website: www.skihall.com Exhibits, national Hall of Fame, Palmedo library. |
Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah Ski and Snowboard ArchivesAddress:Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 United States Contact: Judy Jarrow Email: via website Telephone: () 801 581 3421 Website: www.lib.utah.edu Documentation on Utah skiing, resort growth and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. |
Stowe,
Vermont Ski and Snowboard MuseumAddress:Stowe, 5672 United States Contact: Abby Blackburn Email: info@vermontskimuseum.org Telephone: () 802 253 9911 Website: www.vtssm.com Vermont exhibits, also 10th Mountain. |
Decorah, Iowa
Vesterheim Norwegian-American MuseumAddress:Decorah, Iowa 52101 United States Contact: Laurann Gilbertson Email: info@vesterheim.org Telephone: () 563 382 9681 Website: www.vesterheim.org Museum of Norwegian immigration in the Midwest with small collection on immigrant skiing. |
Carbondale, Colorado
Vintage Ski WorldAddress:Carbondale, Colorado 81623 United States Contact: Richard Allen Email: rallen@vintageskiworld.com Telephone: () 970 963 9025 Website: www.vintageworld.com This is a shop but the proprietor has an extensive collection of vintage ski equipment that he is very willing to show. |
Mercer Island, Washington
Washington State Ski and Snowboard MuseumAddress:Mercer Island, Washington 98040 United States Contact: Dave Moffett Email: info@wsssm.org Telephone: () 424 434 0827 Website: www.wsssm.org Washington State ski development and recognized skiers. Hall of Fame. |
Soda Springs, California
Western Skisport MuseumAddress:Soda Springs, California 95728 United States Contact: Bill Clark Email: bclark@inc.auburnskiclub.org Telephone: () 530 426 3313 x101 Website: www.auburnskiclub.com/asctc/about-us/ski-museum Displays of Western skiing and Squaw Olympics. Strong on "longboards." Library and documents. Note: The Museum of Sierra Ski History and the Olympic Museum are presently fundraising and obtaining land permits. If all goes as planned, the Olympic artifacts from the Western SkiSport Museum wilol go to the Olympic Museum, and the other artifacts will go to the Museum of Sierra Ski History. Eventually, the hope is to combine all three in the Olympic Museum (www.olympicskimuseum.org) planned for Squaw Valley opening in 2023. |
About the Author
E. John B. Allen is an emeritus professor of history at Plymouth State University and the historian for the New England Ski Museum, both located in New Hampshire, USA. Allen has had an interest in ski history since 1976. He’s an active member of the editorial review board for Skiing History, the bimonthly journal of the nonprofit International Skiing History Association (ISHA), helping to vet all articles for historical accuracy prior to publication. In writing his ten books on skiing, he has traveled to many of the museums listed in this guide. His leading books include From Skisport to Skiing: 100 Years of an American Sport (1993), The Culture and Sport of Skiing from Antiquity to World War II (2008), and FIS: 100 Years of International Skiing (2010), coauthored with Egon Theiner. He’s also the junior partner in a 2019 translation by William Frank of a Russian ski book by K.B.E.E. Eimelius, Skis in the Art of War. In 2020, his short book on 35 skiing artworks and artists will be published in Vienna.
Allen has edited two books of conference papers, International Ski History Congress Collected Papers (2002) and The Spirit of Skiing (2009). He has also published more than 60 articles and book chapters in regional, national and international journals, and written 13 encyclopedia entries. He has consulted on ten films, including Legends of American Skiing, which has appeared on the the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from time to time since the early 1980s. He is a frequent lecturer in the United States and Europe and has been keynote speaker at academic conferences in Norway, France, Finland and in Austria, and a seminar leader in Switzerland in 2018. In 2009, he made an eight-lecture tour of Slovenia. He has received the Ullr award from the International Skiing History Association (ISHA) for three of his books and ISHA honored him with its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.