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.
Germany
Wintersport Museum Neuastenberg
Address:Contact:
Email: info@skimuseum-winterberg.de
Telephone: (49) 2981 2636
Website: www.skimuseum-winterberg.de
Estonia
Estonian Sport and Olympic Museum
Address:Contact: Daimar Lell
Email: info@spordimuuseum.ee
Telephone: (372) 730 0750
Website: www.spordimuuseum.ee
Talispordimuuseum
Address:Contact: Jana Mae
Email: info@spordimuuseum.ee
Telephone: (372) 766 3670
Website: www.spordimuuseum.ee/info/otepaa-talispordimuuseum.ee
General collection with emphasis on cross-country skiing. Branch of the Estonian Olympic museum.
Spain
The Snow Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: vielha@baqueira.es
Telephone: (34) 973 644 030
Website: www.bazueira.es/aran-aneu/vall-aran/aran-museos
Snow seen from a scientific, ethnological, and sporting point of view.
Finland
Lahti Ski Museum
Address:Contact: Suvi Kuisma
Email: hiihtomuseo@lahti.fi
Telephone: (358) 50 398 5523
Website: www.ladenmuseo.fi
Impressive displays, good library.
Sports Museum of Finland
Address:Contact: Pekka Honkanen
Email: urheilumeseo@urheilumuseo.fi
Telephone: (358) 9 434 2250
Website: www.urheilumuseo.fi
Displays, library especially strong in Finnish newspapers and periodicals.
France
Club Alpin Français
Address:Contact:
Email: via website
Telephone: (33) 1537 28700
Website: www.ffcam.fr
Many documents of the CAF. Other CAF sections hold regional library materials too.
La Musée du Ski Ancien de la Chapelle D'Abondance
Address:Contact: Jean Luc Danel
Email:
Telephone: (33 ) 04 5073 3249
Website: www.haute-savoie-tourism.org/culture/org/culture/musees/107328-musee-du-ski-ancian
Skis, bindings from c. 1900 on.
Le Grand Tétras
Address:Contact: Roger & Stephanie Tangueley
Email: grandtetras39@aol.com
Telephone: (33) 3846 05113
Website: www.legrandtetras.troumad.org/le_musee.html
Large and excellent private collection, especially material from the Jura.
Maison des Jeux Olympiques D'Hiver
Address:Contact: Claire Grangé
Email: contact@maisonjeuxolympiques-albertville.org
Telephone: (33) 44793 77571
Website: www.maisonjeuxolympiques-albertville.org
Winter Olympic material from 1992.
Musée Alpin
Address:Contact:
Email: via website
Telephone: (33) 450 539 998
Website: www.chamonix.com/musee-alpin,49-187321,fr.html
Local museum, much mountaineering material. Includes winter sports. Library.
Musée Du Ski
Address:Contact: Pierre-André Chauvet
Email:
Telephone: (33) 4 7379 5730
Website:
Large and excellent private collection, small library.
Musée du Ski at Musée Dauphinois
Address:Contact: Olivier Cogne
Email: musee.dauphinois@cg38.fr
Telephone: (33) 45758 8901
Website: www.musee.dauphinois.fr
Excellent collection, much from Rossignol, good library.
Musée National du Sport
Address:Contact:
Email: contact@museedusport.fr
Telephone: (33) 4892 24400
Website: www.allianz-riviera.fr/fr/le-musee-national-du-sport
Moved from Paris in 2014.
United Kingdom
The Ski Club of Great Britain Archives Special Collections of De Montfort University
Address:Contact: Katharine Short
Email: kshort@dmu.ac.uk
Telephone: (44) 116 250 6392
Website: www.dmu.ac.uk
Includes archives of Ski Club of Great Britain.
Italy
Italian Alpine Club, Turin Section
Address:Contact:
Email: segretaria@caitorino.it
Telephone: (39) 11 54 6031
Website: www.caitorino.it
Although a mountaineering society, the library has interesting ski material.
Museum of the Boot
Address:Contact:
Email: info@museoscarpone.it
Telephone: (39) 423 303282
Website: www.museoscarpone.it
Largest collection of ski boots (among others) including, for example, those of Alberto Tomba.
Museum of the White War
Address:Contact:
Email: info@museoguerrabianca.it
Telephone: (39) 334 648 7127
Website: www.museoguerrabianca.it
Ski material of World War I mountain warfare.
National Museum of the Mountain 'Duke of the Abruzzi'
Address:Contact: Aldo Audisio
Email: post@museomontagna.org
Telephone: (39) 116604 104
Website: www.museuomontagna.org
Although this is a mountaineering museum, there is much on skiing here, film is specialty.
Japan
Japanese Ski Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: info@nozawaski.com
Telephone: (81) 26985 3418
Website: www.nozawaski.com/summer/skihakubutsukan.php
Displays European background and then development of skiing in Japan.
Sapporo Olympic Museum
Address:Contact: Masashi Abe
Email:
Telephone: (81) 11 641 8585
Website: www.sapporo-olympiamuseum.jp
Many displays, especially of Olympics. Prince Takamatsu and Dr. Seishichi Ohno ski collections.
Liechtenstein
Geissmann Collection
Address:Contact: Rainer Geissmann
Email: geissmann.rainer@adon.li
Telephone: ()
Website:
Private collection of Swiss Schwendener skis. Essential to e-mail for appointment.
Norway
Alta Musuem
Address:Contact: Harriet Hagen
Email: post@altamuseum.no
Telephone: (47) 41756330
Website: www.alta.museum.no
Impressive rock carving. Exhibition jumping and Bjorn Wirkola.
Holmenkollen Ski Museum
Address:Contact: Birgitte Espeland
Email: birgitte.espeland@skiforeningen.no
Telephone: (47) 916 71947
Website: www.skiforeningen.no/en/holmenkollen/skimuseet
The world's most comprehensive ski museum. Call ahead for research purposes.
Norwegian Folk Museum
Address:Contact: Morten Bing
Email: post@norskfolkemuseum.no
Telephone: (47) 2212 3700
Website: www.norskfolkemuseum.no
The ski material is digitalized at www.digitalmuseum.no/seach/?q=ski&aq=owner%3f%3A%22NF%22
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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.