Category: Museum News

Seventy five years ago on February 11, 1939, Hannes Schneider and his family stepped off the Eastern Slope Express from New York City at the North Conway, New Hampshire train station, after a harrowing year in which Schneider had been under house arrest, and his family reviled in their hometown… Read more“Namesake of the Hannes Schneider Race Arrived 75 Years Ago”

The upcoming Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race at Cranmore Mountain Resort will honor veterans and soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division a full 70 years after the division spent their second winter training in mountain and winter warfare at their Camp Hale, Colorado base. The event is a benefit alpine… Read more“Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Honors 10th Mountain Division”

New England Ski Museum will once more offer $3,000 in grants to support individuals and organizations that will spread the Museum’s mission to preserve the history of skiing and winter sports under its Cal Conniff Grant program in 2014. The program is named for Museum board member Cal Conniff, who… Read more“New England Ski Museum Announces 2014 Grant Availability”

A recent series of 75th anniversaries celebrated by ski resorts across the country, from Shawnee Peak in Maine to Timberline in Oregon, points to a phenomenon that is the subject of a new exhibit at the New England Ski Museum, titled Ski Area Survivors: Prewar American Ski Centers with a… Read more“Ski Area Survivors is New Exhibit at the Ski Museum”

The 17th annual Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race will feature an untimed, up and down-mountain social nighttime ski tour and dinner for skiers on randonee and telemark gear as part of the opening festivities on Friday evening, March 1. Eastern Mountain Sports of North Conway will sponsor the event, providing… Read more“EMS Randonee Night Tour Returns to Cranmore”

70 years ago this winter, the legendary American ski troops that would soon be named the 10th Mountain Division were just occupying Camp Hale, the brand new training base in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Veterans of the 10th Mountain Division from that era from as far away as Washington state… Read more“Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race Honors US Ski Troops”

Each year in connection with its Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race, the New England Ski Museum makes grants totaling $3,000 to support people and groups that enhance the mission of the Museum, which is to preserve the history of skiing and winter sports in New England. The program is named… Read more“New England Ski Museum Call for 2013 Grant Applications”

The 2013 New England Ski Museum Shop catalog is now in print and online, featuring more than 35 new products that convey the excitement, adventure and nostalgia of skiing from the 1930s to 2012. The 24-page catalog offers perfect gifts for skiers and lovers of winter, and quite a few… Read more“2013 Ski Museum Shop Catalog Now in Print”

More than a quarter century after he created the prestigious BEWI Award which honors pioneers of skiing and the ski industry, ski and snowboard expo producer Bernie Weichsel will receive the New England Ski Museum’s Spirit of Skiing award in recognition of his influence in popularizing the sport. The award… Read more“Bernie Weichsel to Receive 7th Spirit of Skiing Award”