
Olympic Museum

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — The Lake Placid Olympic Museum is hosting a “1980 Artifact and Storytelling Night” on Sunday, Feb. 23, in the Edelweiss Room at the Conference Center at Lake Placid. Nineteen-eighty Olympic Winter Games employees, volunteers and community members are invited to bring in an artifact from the Lake Placid Olympic Winter Games… Read more »
Date: 01/15/2020 Contact: Alison Haas | [email protected] | (518) 523-1655 Lake Placid Olympic Museum to Celebrate 40th Anniversary with New Exhibit and Mascot’s Birthday LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — The Lake Placid Olympic Museum, located in the Olympic Center, is excited to celebrate the opening of their new exhibit, Totally 80, on Thursday, Feb. 13, and… Read more »
For immediate Release: 12/16/19 Contact: Alison Haas, Museum Manager Phone: 518-302-5326 Email: [email protected] Lake Placid Olympic Museum Opens New Exhibit LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – The Lake Placid Olympic Museum is excited to announce the opening of its new exhibit, Foretelling the Future – The National Weather Service at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games on December… Read more »
Olympic athletes, state government officials, members of the boards of directors of both the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) and the Lake Placid Olympic Museum, staff, construction partners, and friends of the Museum gathered Wednesday night at the Olympic Center lobby in Lake Placid to celebrate the completion of the Olympic Center and opening of… Read more »
The little mountain village of Lake Placid is known the world over as a place where miracles happen. The 1980 Winter Olympics – held February 13 through 24 – was the second time Lake Placid hosted the Games (the first in 1932), and the brilliance of those 12 days still reverberates powerfully through our Olympic… Read more »
The Lake Placid Legacy Sites will be basking in Olympic spirit as the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games officially kicks off with Opening Ceremonies on Friday, July 26 and concludes Sunday, Aug. 11. As the host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Games, Lake Placid’s Olympic venues offer visitors and residents the unique opportunity to… Read more »
The 1932 and 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games radiated brilliantly around the world as beacons of sporting excellence, and today the excitement of those colossal events still resonates. As the iconic centerpiece of the village of Lake Placid, the Olympic Center is a hub of year of year-round recreation, sport, tourism, and adventure for… Read more »
There’s a lot to celebrate on Olympic and Paralympic Day, June 23, 2022! The birth of the modern Olympic Games and the founding of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are among them. Also at the top of our list is celebrating being active and living the Olympic values around the three pillars of Olympic Day… Read more »