The featured photo shown above is of Woodrow Slone. The backdrop letter was written by Donald Macdonald. Thank you to the Slone and Macdonald families for providing these materials.
The Colorado Snowsports Museum is pleased to debut new additions to our "Letters Home" exhibit. Just in time for Legacy Weekend, the digital deep dive display features materials pertaining to a dozen new soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division. With over 30 new entries, 14 letters, a scrapbook, and 294 newly digitized materials, we're honored to expand on the preservation of 10th Mountain history through items that belonged to soldiers. We're proud to bring forward the names of these soldiers and link their materials, sharing a more personal history.
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The Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame is excited to announce that the Tom Sims snowboard ridden in the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” is now back on display at the Museum. Generously on loan to us by Hilary Sims, through the Colorado Snowboard Archive, this piece of pop culture was for many - the first snowboard they ever saw.
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The following is part of a series of articles compiled by the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame that will take a closer look at some of the priceless artifacts and stories contained in the Museum’s archives.
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Today is the Colorado Snowsports Museum’s birthday! To celebrate, we thought we’d share a bit of history with you about how the Museum and Hall of Fame came to be and remind our audience what we’re all about – in the now.
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What does the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution and the Colorado Snowsports Museum & Hall of Fame have in common? Both cultural institutions house a permanent collection of artifacts from Sherman Poppen, the inventor of the first commercially viable snowboard in the United States: the Snurfer. One of the original boards resides on display at the Smithsonian and five, which were originally on loan to the Colorado Snowsports Museum, are now part of their permanent collection thanks to the generosity of Sherman’s wife, Louise Poppen, and his daughter, Wendy Poppen.
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For our first blog post, we asked our Curator and Director of Collections, Dana Mathios, what she thinks are the top five artifacts, currently on display at the Colorado Snowsports Museum, that sum up Colorado’s rich snow sports history. Although she explained that picking only five artifacts was a challenge, she was able to narrow it down. Read on to learn more about her top five picks and why.
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