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.
Norway
Norwegian Forestry Museum
Address:Contact: Bjørn Bækkelund
Email: skogmus@annomuseum.no
Telephone: (47) 6240 9000
Website: www.skogmus.no
Concentrates on forestry, hunting and fishing and few skis on view. To see the 100 skis in storage appointment must be made for Monday-Friday 10.00-15.30 at bookingskogmus@annomuseum.no.
Norwegian Olympic Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: post@lillehammer.no
Telephone: (47) 6128 89000
Website: www.ol.museum.no
Excellent displays on all Olympics but especially those held in Norway in 1952 and 1994, and the Youth Olympic Games in 2016.
Norwegian Ski Adventure
Address:Contact: Dag Rorgemoen
Email: nse@vtm.no
Telephone: (47) 3506 9080
Website: www.vest-telemark.museum.no/ …norsk-skieventyr-skimuseet-i-morgedal
A member of the Vest-Telemark museum system, good displays with special attention to Norheim (house available for visit) and Bjaaland. Good library. Until recently, this museum used to be open year round. For current information, call or email.
Polar Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: via website
Telephone: (47) 776233 60
Website: www.uit.no
Nansen, Amundsen and also Hansen and Johansen with Amundsen to South Pole.
Ski Museum in the Mining Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: bergverksmuseet@bvm.no
Telephone: (47) 9191 3200
Website: https://norsk-bergverksmuseum.no/skihistorisk-samlung
The ski museum is part of the Mining museum. Especially strong in Kongsberg and Ruud materials.
Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkmuseet
Address:Contact:
Email: post@sverresborg.no
Telephone: (47) 7389 0100
Website: www.sverresborg.no
Ski museum which is among a large number of buildings which comprise the Folk Museum of the area.
Tromsø University Museum
Address:Contact: Anita Maurstad
Email: postmottak@tmu.uit.no
Telephone: (47) 776 450 01
Website: https://uit.no
General exhibits on northern life, especially Sami. Some ski material including ca. 25 skis.
Trysil-Knut Ski Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: rvingels@gmail.com
Telephone: (47) 918933 77
Website: www.expology.com/trysil-knut
Small museum, nice displays.
New Zealand
New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter
Address:Contact: Jan Lane
Email: info@encountermethven.co.nz
Telephone: (64) 33029 666
Website: www.encountermethven.co.nz
Emphasis is on Canterbury area skiing, especially Mt. Hutt.
Poland
Museum of Sport and Tourism
Address:Contact: Tomasz Jagodziński
Email: muzsport@muzeumsportu.waw.pl
Telephone: (48) 225 603 780
Website: www.muzeumsport.waw.pl
Skiing presented among other sports. Large library, museum publications.
Museum of the Tatra Mountains
Address:Contact: Anna Wende-Surmiak
Email: biuro@muzeumtatrzanskie.pl
Telephone: (48) 182 0152 05
Website: www.muzeumtatrzanskie.pl
Ski material and excellent photographs.
Stanisław Barabasz Ski Museum in Cieklin
Address:Contact: Wieław Czechowicz
Email: muzeumnarciarstwa@op.pl
Telephone: (48) 791 994 591
Website: www.muzeum-narciarstwa.pl
Tadeusz Wowkonowicz and Stanisław Barabasz archives, and local ski development.
Russia
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Address:Contact:
Email:
Telephone: (7) 812 328 0812
Website: www.kunstkamera.ru
Information about the few skis held in this museum comes from Tatyana Shrader, "Skis in Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (The Kunstkammer)," in Karin Berg et al (Eds.), History of Skiing Conference Holmenkollen, Oslo 16. - 18.9.1998. Holmenkollen: Skiforeningen, 1998, 13-15.
State Historial Museum
Address:Contact:
Email:
Telephone: (7) 495 692 4019
Website: www.shm.ru
Information about the few bog skis held in this museum comes from Natalia I. Astashova, "Skis from the Archeological Collections of the State Historical Museum," in Karin Berg et al (Eds.), History of Skiing Conference Holmenkollen, Oslo 16. - 18.9.1998. Holmenkollen: Skiforeningen, 1998, 89-94.
Sweden
Dalarnas Idrottsmuseum
Address:Contact: Elisabeth Thorin
Email: elisabeth.thorin@dalarnasmuseum.se
Telephone: (46) 023 138 24
Website: www.dalarnasidrottsmuseum.se
Skimuseum Åsarna
Address:Contact:
Email: info@asarnaskicenter.se
Telephone: (46) 687 302 30
Website: www.asarnaskicenter.se
Swedish Ski Museum
Address:Contact:
Email: info@vbm.se
Telephone: (46) 9016 3900
Website: www.vbm.se
Open air cultural museum of Västerbotten. Incorporates the best ski museum in Sweden, with excellent library. Ski Museum is part of Västerbotten museum complex.
The Vasalopp Musuem
Address:Contact:
Email: info@vasaloppet.se
Telephone: (46) 250 392 25
Website: www.vasaloppet.se
Museum of the Vasalopp. Special exhibits, one on Mora Nisse.
Slovenia
Bloke Ski Exhibition
Address:Contact: Matej Pakiž
Email: obcina.bloke@bloke.si
Telephone: (386) 1709 8918
Website:
Emphasis on local skis. Bloke considers itself the founding place of Slovenian skiing.
Elan Alpine Ski Museum
Address:Contact: Rebeka Lah Notar
Email: muzej@elan.si
Telephone: (386) 453 5 14 00
Website: http://museum.elanskis.com
This is the ELAN factory museum.
Military Museum of the Slovenian Army
Address:Contact: Gregor Kastelic
Email: grego.kastelic@mors.si
Telephone: (386) 2449 5006
Website: www.vojaskimuzej.si
The museum is inside the main building of the officers military training college and has minor displays on skiing.
Mountain Soldiers Exhibition
Address:Slovenia
Contact: Ic Simon Limbic
Email: aleksander.zupan@mors.si
Telephone: (386) 4 576 30 90
Website:
Center for the training of Slovenian mountain soldiers.
Planica Museum in Nordic Center Planica
Address:Contact:
Email: info@nc-planica.si
Telephone: (386) 316 898 06
Website: www.nc-planica.si
Excellent displays of jumping and ski flying.
Slovenian Alpine Museum
Address:Contact: Eva Gradnik
Email: info@planinskimuzej.st
Telephone: (386) 8380 6730
Website: www.planinskimuzej.si
A mountain museum with occasional ski-mountaineering material.
Slovenian Ski Museum
Address:Contact: Jana Babšek
Email: trziski.muzej@siol.net
Telephone: (386) 4592 3810
Website: www.trziski-muzej.si
Ski materials are only one part of the museum.
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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.