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.
Mt. Buller, Victoria
National Alpine Museum of AustraliaAddress:Mt. Buller, Victoria 3723 Australia Contact: Michelle Stevenson Email: info@nama.org Telephone: (61) 418 976 338 Website: www.nama.org.au |
Manly, New South Wales
Perisher Historical SocietyAddress:Manly, New South Wales 1655 Australia Contact: Peter Southwell-Keely Email: pskeely@bigpond.com Telephone: (61) 437 070114 Website: www.perisherhistoricalsociety.org.au |
Thredbo, New South Wales
Thredbo Alpine MuseumAddress:Village Square Thredbo, New South Wales 2625 Australia Contact: Randy Wieman Email: randywieman@gmail.com Telephone: (61) 0408 453 632 Website: thredboalpinemuseum.org.au/ Displays a selection of memorabilia, equipment, photos and documents that constitutes Thredbo and Australian snow sports history. |
Hinterstoder, Upper Austria
Alpineum HinterstoderAddress:Hinterstoder, Upper Austria 4573 Austria 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. |
Innsbruck, Tirol
Austrian Alpine AssociationAddress:Innsbruck, Tirol 6020 Austria 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. |
Jochberg, Tirol
Bergbau-Und HeimatmuseumAddress:Jochberg, Tirol 6373 Austria Contact: Anneliese Hechenberger Email: info@museum-jochberg.at Telephone: (43) 664 330 6302 Website: www.museum-jochberg.at Small collection of ski material. |
Lilienfeld, Lower Austria
Bezirks-Heimatmuseum Mit Zdarsky-Skimuseum und ArchivAddress:Lilienfeld, Lower Austria 3180 Austria Contact: Heinz Eppensteiner Email: tourismus@lilienfeld.at Telephone: (43) 2762 52478 Website: www.zdarsky-ski-museum.at Best museum for Zdarsky. |
Vordernberg, Steiermark/Styria
Erzbergbahn-Und WintersportmuseumAddress:Vordernberg, Steiermark/Styria 8794 Austria 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. |
Bludenz, Vorarlberg
FIS Skimuseum DamülsAddress:Haldenweg 10/5 Bludenz, Vorarlberg 6700 Austria Contact: Christof Thoeny Email: christof@thoeny.au Telephone: (43) 664.4911474 Website: wintersportarchiv.org/en/museum/damuels Located in the Kulisse Pfarrhof, the museum displays exhibitions about local history and winter sports. After the exhibition was completely redesigned in the summer of 2017, it was certified by the International Ski Federation (FIS) and remains Vorarlberg's only FIS ski museum. |
Gröbming, Steiermark/Styria
Heimatsmuseum GröbmingAddress:Gröbming, Steiermark/Styria 8962 Austria 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, Steiermark/Styria
Mariazell HeimatmuseumAddress:Mariazell, Steiermark/Styria 8630 Austria 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. |
Schruns, Vorarlberg
Montafon Folk Museum and Montafon ArchiveAddress:Schruns, Vorarlberg 6780 Austria 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. |
Kitzbühel, Tirol
Museum KitzbühelAddress:Kitzbühel, Tirol 6370 Austria Contact: Email: info@museum-kitzbuehel.at Telephone: (43) 5356 67274 Website: www.museum-kitzbuehel.at Many paintings by Alfons Walde. |
Noldi Beck's CollectionAddress: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. |
Wien, Vienna
Österreichisches OlympiamuseumAddress:Rennweg 46-50 Wien, Vienna 1030 Austria Contact: Email: office@olympia.at Telephone: (43) 1799 5511 Website: olympia.at/museum This is the virtual museum of the Austrian Olympic Committee. |
Seefeld, Tirol
Rosshütte Panoramic RestaurantAddress:Seefeld, Tirol Austria 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. |
Werfenweng, Salzburg
Salzburger FIS Landes-SkimuseumAddress:Weng 138 Werfenweng, Salzburg 5453 Austria Contact: Herbert Steiner Email: info@skimuseum.at Telephone: (43) 664 5000 096 Website: skimuseum.at Local history with emphasis on Lettner edges. |
Hochpillberg, Tirol
Schimuseum Hotel GrafenastAddress:Hochpillberg, Tirol 6130 Austria Contact: Email: sehnsucht@grafenast.at Telephone: (43) 5242 63209 Website: www.grafenast.at Private collection of the Unterlechner family. |
Saalbach, Salzburg
Skimuseum Und Heimathaus Saalbach-HinterglemmAddress:Saalbach, Salzburg 5753 Austria Contact: Email: gemeinde@saalbach.at Telephone: (43) 664 4767 807 Website: www.saalbach.or.at/de/einrichtungen/heimathausskimuseum |
St. Anton-am-Arlberg, Tirol
St. Anton MuseumAddress:Rudi-Matt-Weg 10 St. Anton-am-Arlberg, Tirol 6580 Austria Contact: Peter Mall Email: office@museum-stanton.com Telephone: (43) 5446 2475 Website: museum-stanton.com Local history. Emphasis on Hannes Schneider period. Built circa 1910, Villa Trier has been open to the public as a museum of St. Anton’s past for 30 years. Its permanent collection highlights the rich heritage of St. Anton from the Middle Ages to today. |
Innsbruck,
The Austrian Alpine AssociationAddress:Innsbruck, Austria 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. |
Lech, Vorarlberg
Walsermuseum Lech-TannbergAddress:Lech, Vorarlberg 6764 Austria Contact: Email: museumvereine@aon.at Telephone: (43) 5583 2213 36 Website: www.vorarlbergermuseen.at/museen/walsermuseum-lech-tannberg/information Ski display among many others. |
Mürzzuschlag, Steiermark/Styria
Winter Sport Museum MurzzuschlagAddress:Wienerstrasse 13 Mürzzuschlag, Steiermark/Styria 8680 Austria Contact: Hannes Nothnagl Email: office@wintersportmuseum.com Telephone: (43) 3852 2556 Website: wintersportmuseum.com Large museum, excellent collections, good library. Renovated and newly opened to the public in 2018. |
Haus im Ennstal, Steiermark/Styria
WintersportmuseumAddress:Haus im Ennstal, Steiermark/Styria 8967 Austria Contact: Willi Wawra Email: wintersportmuseum@haus.at Telephone: (43) 3686 4441 Website: www.haus.at/de/kultur/wintersportmuseum.php |
Hirschegg, Vorarlberg
Wintersportmuseum im WalserhausAddress:Hirschegg, Vorarlberg 6992 Austria Contact: Email: info@walserhaus.at Telephone: (43) 5517 5114 460 Website: www.walserhaus.at |
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.