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.
Austria
Alpineum Hinterstoder
Address:Contact: Sabrina Plursch
Email: hinterstoder@pyhrn-priel.net
Telephone: (43) 7564 5263 99
Website: www.alpineum.at
Exhibits showing change from mountain farm village to summer and winter tourism. Strong on local skiing with downhill simulator and avalanche exhibits.
Austrian Alpine Association
Address:Contact: Veronika Raich
Email: veronika.raich@alpenverein.at
Telephone: (43) 512 595 47-19
Website: www.alpenverein.at
Closed while looking for new premises (April 2018). Lists of ski material from the Alpine Clubs of Germany, Austria and the South Tirol can be found at www.historiches-alpenarchiv.org.
Bergbau-Und Heimatmuseum
Address:Contact: Anneliese Hechenberger
Email: info@museum-jochberg.at
Telephone: (43) 664 330 6302
Website: www.museum-jochberg.at
Small collection of ski material.
Bezirks-Heimatmuseum Mit Zdarsky-Skimuseum und Archiv
Address:Contact: Heinz Eppensteiner
Email: tourismus@lilienfeld.at
Telephone: (43) 2762 52478
Website: www.zdarsky-ski-museum.at
Best museum for Zdarsky.
Erzbergbahn-Und Wintersportmuseum
Address:Contact: Helma Moitzi
Email: office@erzbergbahn.at
Telephone: (43) 3849 832
Website: www.vordernberg.at/geschichte/museum.html
This railway museum also exhibits ski material.
FIS Skimuseum Damüls
Address:Contact: Christian Lingenhöle
Email: info@damuels.travel
Telephone: (43) 5510 6200
Website: www.damuels.travel
Emphasis on Vorarlberg skiing and ski production and competition. Sohm, Schneider, Bilgeri featured.
Heimatsmuseum Gröbming
Address:Contact: Hubert Pleninger
Email: pleninger@aon.at
Telephone: (43) 664 960 5006
Website: www.museum-gb.at
Local museum including information on small regional ski developments.
Mariazell Heimatmuseum
Address:Contact:
Email: mariazeller.heimathaus@aon.at
Telephone: (43) 3882 431 26
Website: www.mariazeller-heimathaus.at/heimathaus/wintersport
Small section of skis among local history artifacts.
Montafon Folk Museum and Montafon Archive
Address:Contact: Michael Kasper
Email: info@montafoner-museen.at
Telephone: (43) 5556 74723
Website: www.montafoner-museen.at
Regional museum that also contains ski material and much documentation.
Museum Kitzbühel
Address:Contact:
Email: info@museum-kitzbuehel.at
Telephone: (43) 5356 67274
Website: www.museum-kitzbuehel.at
Many paintings by Alfons Walde.
Noldi Beck's Collection
Address:Austria
Contact:
Email:
Telephone: ()
Website:
Once on display in Liechtenstein, is believed to be in Austria. Once it has been inventoried, there is a hope that it will be exhibited. The tale is best followed in an article by Bernhard Odehnal, "Ein Museum verschwindet" ("A Museum Vanishes") in the Swiss Tagesanzeiger 28 October 2017.
Österreichisches Olympiamuseum
Address:Austria
Contact:
Email: office@olympia.at
Telephone: (43) 1799 5511
Website: www.olympia.at/museum
This is the virtual museum of the Austrian Olympic Committee.
Rosshütte Panoramic Restaurant
Address:Contact:
Email: info@rosshuette.at
Telephone: (43) 5212 2416-0
Website: www.seefeld-sports.at
Olympic and nostalgia exhibit (1964, 1976 Winter Olympic Games) in a restaurant above Seefeld.
Salzburger Fis Landes-Skimuseum
Address:Contact: Hans Müller
Email: info@skimuseum.at
Telephone: (43) 664 50 000 96
Website: www.werfenweng.eu/EN/129-FIS-Landes-Skimuseum.html
Local history with emphasis on Lettner edges.
Schimuseum Hotel Grafenast
Address:Contact:
Email: sehnsucht@grafenast.at
Telephone: (43) 5242 63209
Website: www.grafenast.at
Private collection of the Unterlechner family.
Skimuseum Und Heimathaus Saalbach-Hinterglemm
Address:Contact:
Email: gemeinde@saalbach.at
Telephone: (43) 664 4767 807
Website: www.saalbach.or.at/de/einrichtungen/heimathausskimuseum
The Austrian Alpine Association
Address:Contact:
Email:
Telephone: ()
Website:
Innsbruck is closed (April 2018) while they look for new premises. However, the digitized lists can be searched, so it is included here.
The Museum of St. Anton in the Kandahar Haus
Address:Contact:
Email: office@museum-stanton.com
Telephone: (43) 5446 22690
Website: www.museum-stanton.com
Local history. Emphasis on Hannes Schneider period.
Walsermuseum Lech-Tannberg
Address:Contact:
Email: museumvereine@aon.at
Telephone: (43) 5583 2213 36
Website: www.vorarlbergermuseen.at/museen/walsermuseum-lech-tannberg/information
Ski display among many others.
Winter!Sport!Museum
Address:Contact: Hannes Nothnagl
Email: office@wintersportmuseum.com
Telephone: (43) 3852 3504
Website: www.wintersportmuseum.com
Large museum, excellent collections, good library. Renovated and newly opened to the public in 2018.
Wintersportmuseum
Address:Contact: Willi Wawra
Email: wintersportmuseum@haus.at
Telephone: (43) 3686 4441
Website: www.haus.at/de/kultur/wintersportmuseum.php
Wintersportmuseum im Walserhaus
Address:Contact:
Email: info@walserhaus.at
Telephone: (43) 5517 5114 460
Website: www.walserhaus.at
Australia
National Alpine Museum of Australia
Address:Contact: Michelle Stevenson
Email: info@nama.org
Telephone: (61) 418 976 338
Website: www.nama.org.au
Perisher Historical Society
Address:Contact: Philip and Pamela Woodman
Email: phsadmin@iprimus.com.au
Telephone: (61) 2 9907 7082
Website: www.perisherhistoricalsociety.org.au
Thredbo Ski Museum
Address:Contact: Christina Webb
Email: via website
Telephone: (61) 2 9449 7610
Website: www.thredboskimuseum.com
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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.