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.
Switzerland
Swiss Sports University
Address:Contact:
Email: via internet at 'media library'
Telephone: (41) 323 276 226
Website: www.ehsm.ch
No ski exhibits but very good library. Essential to call ahead.
Swiss Transport Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: mail@verkehrshaus.ch
Telephone: (41) 413 704 444
Website: www.verkehrshaus.ch
Includes a replica of the Davos-Bolgen ski lift, and much on aerial tramways and their inspection. Good library.
Talmuseum Lauterbrunnen
Address:Contact: Esther Graf
Email: info@talmuseumlauterbrunnen.ch
Telephone: (41) 338 553 586
Website: www.talmuseumlauterbrunnen.ch
One of 12 sections is a small display of skis.
Toni Hischier's Ski Museum
Address:Contact:
Email:
Telephone: (41) 793 299 400
Website: www.obergoms.ch/activities/for-mind-soul/museums
Private collection of over 1000 skis.
Wintersport Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: andresguler@bluewin.ch
Telephone: (41) 814 132 484
Website: www.wintersportmuseum.ch
Skiing displays are one part of the museum.
China
Vasaloppet Museum
Address:Contact:
Email:
Telephone: (86) 431 8964 5455
Website: www.vasaloppetchina.com
The museum is only open on request and it is difficult to make a connection. The website and phone number are those for the Chinese Vasaloppet race organization. There are no specific contact people, website or telephone for the museum.
Czech Republic
Horacké Muzeum
Address:Contact:
Email: horacke.muzeum@nmnm.cz
Telephone: (420) 566 216
Website: www.hm.nmnm.cz
Late 19th century skiing in area.
Krkonosšké Muzeum in Jilemnice Castle
Address:Contact: Jan Luštinc
Email: kmjilemnice@kmap.cz
Telephone: (420 ) 481 543 041
Website: www.kmjilemnice.cz
Graf Harrach and early skiing in area.
Ski Museum Harrachov
Address:Contact:
Email: turistik@sklarnaharrachov.cz
Telephone: (420) 603 470 113
Website: www.giant-mountains.info/tourism/ski-museum-harrachov.harachov.html
Local development of skiing and especially jumping.
Germany
Alpinmuseum
Address:Contact: Christine Müller Horn
Email: museen@kempten.de
Telephone: (49) 831 2525 740
Website: www.kempten.de/alpin-museum.html
History of the Alps, Alpinism and Skiing. Paulcke, Zdarsky, Bilgeri featured. Good library.
Deutsches Skimuseum
Address:Contact: Gerd Falkner
Email: gerd.falkner@deutscherskiverband.de/ueber.de
Telephone: (49) 898 5790 211
Website: www.deutscherskiverband.de/ueber_uns_skimuseum_uebersicht_de,348.html
Excellent displays, good library but no longer holds the Luther Archive (now at Deutsche Sporthochschule, Köln.
Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum
Address:Contact: Jennifer Guthof
Email: info@sportmuseum.de
Telephone: (49) 221 33609-0
Website: www.sportmuseum.de
Concentrates on 1936-1972 Olympic Games. Comparatively little on skiing.
German Sports University
Address:Contact: Stefan Wassong
Email: sporthistory@dsha-koeln.de
Telephone: (49) 221 4982 3740
Website: www.dshs-koeln.de
Best library for ski materials in Germany. Now holds the Luther Archive.
Heimat-und Skimuseum
Address:Contact: Jürgen Schütz
Email: mail@museum-braunlage.de
Telephone: (49) 5520 1646
Website: www.museum-braunlage.de
Braunlage in late 19th century.
Leipzig Sportmuseum
Address:Contact: Gerlinde Rohr
Email: sportmuseum.leipzig@t-online.de
Telephone: (49) 341 98051 12
Website: www.leipzig-online-de/sportmuseum-leipzig.html
Large general collection with some ski material.
Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History
Address:Contact:
Email: info@nish.de
Telephone: (49) 511 1268 5060
Website: www.nish.de
Documents relating mostly to Lower Saxony including the Harz.
Marcus Wasmeier Bauernhof-Und Wintersportmuseum
Address:Contact: Marcus Wasmeier
Email: eventagentur@wasmeier.de
Telephone: (49) 8026 929220
Website: www.wasmeier.de
Large open-air museum of which ski section is one part.
Museum Im Kloesterle
Address:Contact:
Email: kloesterle-museu@gmx.de
Telephone: (49) 8861 59961
Website: www.peiting.de/tourismus/kultur/peiting/museum-im-kloesterle
Skiing is one section of the museum.
Oberwiesenthal Ski Museum
Address:Contact: Brigitte Roscher
Email: info@oberwiesenthal.de
Telephone: (49) 373 487 521
Website: www.oberwiesenthal.com/urlaubsziel/sehenswertes/skimuseum.htm
Schwartzwälder Skimuseum
Address:Contact: Alfred Faller
Email: info@schwartzwaelder-skimuseum.de
Telephone: (49) 7652 982 192
Website: www.schwarzwaelder-skimuseum.de
Exhibits on Black Forest, Georg Thoma and Sepp Allgeier.
Ski Museum Augsburg
Address:Contact:
Email: kundenservice@foerg.de
Telephone: (49 ) (0) 821 806 210
Website: www.foerg.de/outlet
Holds material from abroad, c. 400 skis, bindings and boots.
Ski-Köpfer-Museum
Address:Contact: Walter Strohmeier
Email: info@ski-koepfer.de
Telephone: (49) 7675 1600 25
Website: www.ski-koepfer.de
A digitized museum with texts.
Skimuseum Alfons Dorner
Address:Contact: Franz Höflinger
Email: via website
Telephone: (49) 8640 800 200
Website: www.reitimwinkl.de/winterurlaub/skimuseum
Excellent displays from c. 1880s on.
Skimuseum Nesselwang
Address:Contact: Tourist Office
Email: info@nesselwang.de
Telephone: (49) 8361 9230 40
Website: www.nesselwang.de/museen-in-nesselwang.html
Skiing in Allgäu
Thüringer Wintersport-Ausstellung
Address:Contact: Jan Knapp
Email:
Telephone: (49) 36842 522 37
Website: www.oberhof.de
Many artifacts, documents.
Pages
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.