Ski Museum’s North Conway Exhibit Re-Locates

Now in Eastern Slope Inn

Franconia Notch, NH  May 4, 2010 – The New England Ski Museum has a new location for its North Conway NH satellite exhibit in the historic Eastern Slope Inn. Previously, the organization had an exhibit in North Conway since December 2008, situated on the ground floor of the Shops at Norcross Place, and in that time hosted approximately 5,000 visitors.

The new site of the exhibit is in the area of the Eastern Slope Inn that had been the hotel’s dining room in the era when the inn was the center of one of the country’s first ski resorts encompassing Mount Cranmore and the historic hotel.

Numerous publicity photographs in the Museum’s collection dating to the 1930s and 1940s when North Conway-bred financier Harvey Dow Gibson owned the Eastern Slope Inn depict such skiing luminaries as Hannes and Herbert Schneider, Benno Rybiska, Toni Matt and Lowell Thomas celebrating various occasions in the space in which the exhibit now is located.

The current exhibit in the Museum’s North Conway branch is The National Ski Patrol and Ski Patrolling in America.