Successful athletes such as Georg Thoma as Olympic Nordic Combination champion and Christl Cranz as alpine skier are represented as well as the manufacture of skis and equipment and other departments - colorful ski fashion accessories, ski films, showcases full of medals, trophies and start numbers, in short: from old wooden skis to snowboards, the exciting development of winter sports.
Winter landscapes painted around 1900 enrich the historic Black Forest farmhouse. In 1999, a part of the attic was set up as an area for special exhibitions. Since then, the ski museum has shown around four presentations a year with works by contemporary artists.
A brief history of skiing
"Skiing is useful, it saves time and effort and it is healthy. In snowy winters, skis also provide invaluable services, so buy some skis, learn to ski and let your children learn!" from Dr. Wilhelm Paulcke: "Brief instructions for the use and manufacture of skis", around 1905.
When skis complemented snowshoes and sledges at the end of the 19th century, everyday life and sport in the Black Forest changed profoundly. The new sport quickly found a large following. It developed into a competitive and fashionable sport, attracting a broad and fashionable audience to the vacation resorts.
The fascination of skiing, a new way of experiencing the winter landscape, also influenced painting and film. It inspired the Black Forest painters Hermann Dischler, Franz Eberlin and Karl Hauptmann. The film "Miracle of the Snowshoe" by Dr. Arnold Fanck and Sepp Allgeier conquered the whole world from Freiburg.
Skiing in the Black Forest was inspired from outside. It were the Norwegians and the Frenchman Dr. Pilet who taught the new sport. Georg Thoma from Hinterzarten was the first Central European to break the dominance of the Norwegians in Nordic Combination with his Olympic victory in Squaw Valley in 1960.