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The objective of International Museum Day (IMD) is

The objective of International Museum Day (IMD) is to raise awareness about the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.” Organized on 18th of May each year or around this date, the events and activities planned to celebrate International Museum Day can last a day, a weekend or an entire week. IMD was celebrated for the first time 40 years ago. All around the world, more and more museums participate in International Museum Day. Last year, more than 37,000 museums participated in the event in about 158 countries and territories. - https://icom.museum/en/

We are proud to take part in the International Museum Day this year. It is a shame that we can't be open for tours on this day but we encourage everyone to head on over to our website, https://skihall.com, and check out everything we have to offer! We hope you would consider donating or becoming a patron while you're over there so that we can continue to honor and celebrate those who have made skiing and snowboarding into the sports we love today!

Honored Member Spotlight - Jakob Vaage! Jakob Vaa

Honored Member Spotlight - Jakob Vaage!

Jakob Vaage was considered the world’s foremost ski historian. As curator of the Norwegian National Ski Museum at Holmenkollen, he contributed many little-known facts until his retirement and assisted in the memorialization programs of the NSA and USSA for many years. Vaage was a prolific writer who willingly shared his vast ski sport knowledge with other historians.

Born in Oslo on February 9, 1905, Jakob Vaage was an accomplished skier, student of languages, educator and scholarly botanist.

Twice a Holmenkollen competitor, Jakob won the Norwegian Junior Ski Jumping Championship (18-20 years) in 1924. He served as a certified ski jumping judge from 1925 on. With the revival of F.I.S. interest in slalom, he turned to the alpine aspect of the sport in 1933 and three years later became the first chairman of the Norwegian slalom committee; in 1939, he was named first chairman of the ski instructors’ committee. Vaage coached the Norwegian jumper for the F.I.S. World Championships in Poland in 1935 and managed the Norwegian Olympic slalom team during the Winter Games in Germany in 1936. Chairman of the Norwegian ski judges for many years, he also served on the F.I.S. judges’ committee for a decade.

Vaage’s writing career was launched by a book about slalom racing, On Steel Edges (1939). He also wrote The Holmenkollen Hill (both Norwegian and English versions) and Sports Books of Norway, a monumental research project listing of 1500 titles published over the previous 200 years.
Vaage attended the 1954 dedication of the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum on which occasion he presented twenty pairs of historic skis to the museum: five pair from mid-19th-century Norway and the others gathered during his travels in the American mid-west.

Vaage returned to the U.S. as a ski jumping judge at the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley and took time out to lead members of the Norwegian ski team on a pilgrimage to Snowshoe Thompson’s grave in Genoa, California.

Jakob Vaage was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1976.

Honored Member Spotlight - Penny Pitou! Like many

Honored Member Spotlight - Penny Pitou!

Like many New England youngsters, Penny first put on skis at age four. She took to skiing “like a duck to water” and in no time was skiing circles around the other girls. By the time she was eight, she was racing the boys and defeating them. In 1955, at age sixteen, Penny astonished the ski world by winning the slalom, downhill and alpine combined championships at the Junior Alpine Championships at Whitefish, Montana. The next year Penny was named to the U.S. Ski Team for the Winter Olympics at Cortina d’ Ampezzo, Italy. Although she raced in all three events (downhill, slalom and giant slalom), she was inexperienced in world class skiing and did not place well. Few knew that she made the ski team using skis that were factory seconds.

Penny went to Europe as a U.S. Ski Team member for the F.I.S. World Championships at Badgastein, Austria in 1958. After the F.I.S. Championships, Penny made the big decision not to return to Middlebury College and stayed in Europe to gain experience by skiing with Europe’s best and prepared herself for the big events that lay ahead. Penny’s parents were of modest means and were unable to.

There was a great deal of pressure put on Penny by the ski scribes and the ski world in general for her to win a medal at the Squaw Valley games. She took the pressure like she had “ice water in her veins” but admitted privately that her “knees shook” and she had “butterflies in her stomach” before every race. No one, especially her competitors, would ever know it by looking at her. Here was a youngster that exuded confidence in her ability and never even considered not winning a medal at Squaw Valley. Although the gold medal eluded her, she won a pair of silver medals – one in the downhill and one in the giant slalom. With these wins in “her pocket”, Penny closed out her international skiing career.

Penny Pitou was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, MI as a member of the “Class of 1976”. Penny Pitou ranks as one of the greatest female skiers this country has ever produced!

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