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.
United States
The American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame and Museum
Address: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.
The Winter Archive
Address:Contact: Paul Hooge
Email: khooge2000@yahoo.com
Telephone: () 970 799 6797
Website:
4,000 square feet of winter-related exhibits and archived private collection.
Tread of Pioneers Musuem
Address:Contact: Candice Bannister
Email: cbannister@treadofpioneers.org
Telephone: () 970 879 2214
Website: www.treadofpioneers.org
U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
Address:Contact: Justin Koski
Email: administrator@skihall.com
Telephone: () 906 485 6323
Website: www.skihall.com
Exhibits, national Hall of Fame, Palmedo library.
Utah Ski and Snowboard Archives
Address: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.
Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum
Address:Contact: Abby Blackburn
Email: info@vermontskimuseum.org
Telephone: () 802 253 9911
Website: www.vtssm.com
Vermont exhibits, also 10th Mountain.
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
Address: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.
Vintage Ski World
Address: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.
Washington State Ski and Snowboard Museum
Address: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.
Western Skisport Museum
Address: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.
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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.