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We received news from Santa Caterina, Italy today (Dec. 27, 2014)  that Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) took first place in the men’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup tour  for his career first victory!  Travis after the race: “It was a perfect run! I love to take on a new challenge and a new slope. I love the hill—the mountains are huge here and it’s fun skiing.”  Congratulations Travis!… Read more

Although summers are busy at the Museum, the winters are even busier. The Boatworks Mall is the only indoor mall in Tahoe and is in a prime location in the center of downtown Tahoe City.  We have found that some people come just to see the Museum while others are there for the art gallery, shopping or great dining in the warm atmosphere.  Admission to the Museum is free so if you stay for a few minutes or even hours everyone can leave feeling good and hopefully will have  learned a little about their ski history. Pictured here is Sacramento Physician Dr. Theo Marentis and the wonderful Paige Greaves straight off the slopes of Squaw for a quick run through the Museum and a little mall browsing – Thanks everyone for coming by!… Read more

The Batiste and Antonucci families want to thank everyone who took the time to travel to the Museum and who donated so generously.  We had a great year with a record number of visitors and truly unbelievable donations, both monetarily and with Olympic and ski history artifacts.  We look forward to the New Year with many new things to come including adding rare artifacts and expanding the contemporary displays beginning with the Mancuso exhibit in just two weeks!  Happy holidays to everyone and as always hope for peace on earth.Read more

The Museum was able to recently acquire a copy of the Official 1960 Olympic contact book – the only one known to still exist!  It contains all the names of the people involved in the Olympics from the pageantry division to the US Army personnel involved.  It is an excellent find not only showing those to contact but how contact was made back then through speaking directly with the operator.  The 16 page book will be cataloged and then placed on display at the museum. Read more

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO), Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) and Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) pictured here pulled off the first ever all-American podium in alpine World Cup ski racing at Lake Louise today(Dec. 6) . Congratulations!… Read more

We are so happy to have the Far West Nordic Ski Education Association join us at the Museum.  They are a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the sport of cross country skiing and facilitate competitive XC skiing for juniors (under age 20), seniors (ages 20-29) and masters (age 30 and up). Far West Nordic is particularly active with juniors, bringing coaching and a variety of training programs to our younger generations. By joining Far West, you’ll be helping kids stay healthy and active, and you’ll be supporting cross country ski athletes of all ages and levels of ability.  We want to thank them for being part of the museum and for all the great things they do for the kids and community!Read more

The emblem is the New Oslo City Hall overlaid by the Olympic rings, and surrounded by the phrase, “The 6th Winter Olympic Games / Oslo 1952”. This wonderful framed display was donated to the Museum by Inger Bisson who had only recently donated a very rare 1960 Olympic plaque.  America won 4 gold medals in the 1952 winter games including Dick Button’s gold in figure skating, Ken Henry’s gold in speed skating and  Andrea Mead Lawrence’s 2 gold medals in alpine skiing.  The games were memorable also as it was the first time women competed in cross country skiing. If you see Inger skiing, golfing or riding bikes in this area please let her know that the Museum and the entire region is grateful for her gifts!… Read more

The Museum recently acquired the rare Walt Disney Olympic ceremony pageantry pin attached to the even rarer presentation card (only one we have ever seen!).  Disney not only designed the unique Olympic torch but scripted the very successful Olympic opening and closing ceremonies.  The pageantry pins were given to all those who were lucky enough to be involved in these ceremonies.  At the museum we have several very unique Disney artifacts from the Olympics with more to be displayed shortly.  Walt Disney loved the mountains and spent large parts of his winter skiing in the region.  Like us, he probably watched the skies, waiting for snow!… Read more

If you want to hear a great talk on the 1960 Winter Olympics or go on a walking tour of the site of the Olympics you will have to track down Museum Co-founder David C  Antonucci.  He has been a Lake Tahoe resident for over 40 years and is considered the foremost historian of the 1960 winter games. David is the Author of the premier books about our Olympics – “Snowball’s Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley & Lake Tahoe and  The 1960 Winter Olympics (Images of Sports)”.  David is also the author ofFairest Picture — Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe” following the adventures of Mark Twain at our Lake.  So….if you want to learn more about the 1960 winter Olympics or the history of Mark Twain in the region you can book David for a talk through his website www.tahoefacts.com, email him at: [email protected] or get right to the source and call him directly at  530-525-5410.  Thanks David for all the great teaching – when is the next fun book coming out?Read more

We were so lucky to have Stacey Rodarte’s 4th grade class from Glenshire Elementary School visit the Museum earlier this year.  Perhaps the best part (other than entertaining our Olympic host Joe Pete Wilson) was reading all of the essays that they had written following their visit.  Thank you Stacey  for teaching and for the Museum visit as nothing is more important than the kids!… Read more