National Alpine Museum Australia

National Alpine Museum Australia Discover the people, places and spirit of alpine Australia. Their story, our story, your story.

You can explore more of the alpine stories you love by searching our online catalogue: https://ehive.com/collections/6085/national-alpine-museum-of-australia

Join us in the Museum this Thursday for our final Apres@NAMA for the 2025 Season.Find out what it takes to make a living...
25/08/2025

Join us in the Museum this Thursday for our final Apres@NAMA for the 2025 Season.

Find out what it takes to make a living in the Ski Retail Business as owner of and SIA Hall of Fame inductee Mike Balfe and second-generation ski retailer Rob Aivatoglou of on the Chairlift for Après @ NAMA. Enjoy a drink as they share how they got into the industry and some great on and off snow stories.

National Alpine Museum Australia, Level 1 (Down the Lift), Alpine Central, Mt Buller. 5:30pm to 7pm with the Chairlift Chat kicking off at 6pm. Entry is free but all donations support the museum.
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Did you catch Phil and Chris Schwartz on the NAMA Chairlift tonight as we celebrate 40 years of ?
21/08/2025

Did you catch Phil and Chris Schwartz on the NAMA Chairlift tonight as we celebrate 40 years of ?

It's that time of the week again make sure you get on down to the museum for Après@NAMA and our second last Chairlift Ch...
21/08/2025

It's that time of the week again make sure you get on down to the museum for Après@NAMA and our second last Chairlift Chat for the season as we celebrate 40 years of with early members Chris and Phil Schwartz and possibly some other special guests. Step back in time to when Cossacks, Daffys and Spread Eagles were cool and TBR and Falls Creek's Team Red battled it out for freestyle supremacy!

We'll also have some new footage from the archive to share!

Doors open 5:30pm and the Chat kicks off at 6pm. As always entry is free but every donation helps support the museum to keep preserving and sharing great Alpine stories, history and heritage.

Level 1, Alpine Central
Apres@NAMA is supported by the
📸 Mark Ashkanasy collection, NAMA

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Did you catch father and daughter Ski Patrol duo Andy and Ally Laidlaw on the NAMA Chairlift tonight as we continue to ...
14/08/2025

Did you catch father and daughter Ski Patrol duo Andy and Ally Laidlaw on the NAMA Chairlift tonight as we continue to celebrate 75 years of Mt Buller Ski Patrol. Father and son patrol duo Speaky and Nathan Lyons did.



Are you ready for this week's Apres@NAMA as we continue celebrating 75 years of Mt Buller Ski Patrol with Andy and Ally ...
12/08/2025

Are you ready for this week's Apres@NAMA as we continue celebrating 75 years of Mt Buller Ski Patrol with Andy and Ally Laidlaw joining us on the Chairlift to share their stories of patrolling, why they love it and the pros and cons of working with family.

Drinks and nibbles are proudly support by the so come down from 5:30pm with the chat kicking off at 6pm.
National Alpine Museum of Australia, Level 1 (take the lift downstairs) Alpine Central, Summit Road, Mt Buller.

Entry is free but all donations support the museum to help sharing and preserving our Alpine stories, history and heritage.
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TONIGHT at Après @ NAMA enjoy a drink and join snowmaker and CFA Volunteer and former Captain Ewey Macaskill on the Chai...
07/08/2025

TONIGHT at Après @ NAMA enjoy a drink and join snowmaker and CFA Volunteer and former Captain Ewey Macaskill on the Chairlift, as he shares his summer and winter stories from nearly 30 years on Mt Buller; from what it takes to make snow, the challenges of fighting fires on a mountain top and his best pond skim result (and outfit!).

National Alpine Museum Australia, Level 1 (Down the Lift), Alpine Central, Mt Buller 5:30pm to 7pm with the Chairlift Chat kicking off at 6pm. Entry is free but all donations support the museum.

Don't miss Rhylla and Harro on the chair tonight during Apres@NAMA as they share their Mt Buller love story, and their t...
31/07/2025

Don't miss Rhylla and Harro on the chair tonight during Apres@NAMA as they share their Mt Buller love story, and their travels around the world chasing and capturing snow and surf.

Level 1, Alpine Central. Doors Open 5:30pm, Chat starts t 6pm.

Entry free, donations appreciated.

Looking for something warm and dry to do today? We're extending the museum opening hours and will be open from 10am to 5...
21/07/2025

Looking for something warm and dry to do today? We're extending the museum opening hours and will be open from 10am to 5pm.

Come on down and check out our 75 years of Ski Patrol Exhibition and meet former Patrol Manager Speaky and hear his stories about rescues and adventures on the mountain.

Entry is free but donations are appreciated.
Level 1, Alpine Central, Summit Road.

We've got kids colouring in, films and exhibitions.

Join us tomorrow for après at the museum as Ed and Speaky join us on the Chairlift to talk about 75 years of Ski Patrol....
16/07/2025

Join us tomorrow for après at the museum as Ed and Speaky join us on the Chairlift to talk about 75 years of Ski Patrol.

Entry is free, donations are greatly appreciated.

Level 1, Alpine Central, Doors open 5:30pm

for 75 years of Mt Buller Ski Patrol, in the earliest years rescue sleds were makeshift often out of skis or branches,...
12/07/2025

for 75 years of Mt Buller Ski Patrol, in the earliest years rescue sleds were makeshift often out of skis or branches, but the possibility of using new Austrian rescue sleds (Ajka's) were first discussed in the August 1950 edition of Schuss. In the 1952 Season Commandant Derrick Stogdale brought back several new ski sledges and a canoe sledge from Europe, it's likely the canoe sledge was an early Akja which were produced commercially from 1948 by Tyromont.

'We do lot of training to gain experience before ever running a "loaded" akja with a patient and over time, you get quite use to "running sleds", though when you stop and think about it, it is quite unique' - Ed Mahon, Manager, Mt Buller Ski Patrol, 2025.
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📸 Series of photos showing the use of an Akja by members of the Mt Buller Ski Patrol, about 1980s. Photos Bill Bachman Collection, NAMA.
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for 100 years of Alpine Resort village celebrating the . The end of Hotham’s isolation came for the first time in 19...
11/07/2025

for 100 years of Alpine Resort village celebrating the . The end of Hotham’s isolation came for the first time in 1958 but regularly from 1967 when the Great Alpine Road was ploughed the whole way through. While the improved access was appreciated, the destruction of favourite ski runs was not, in a letter to the Age in 1959 Alpine Club member Malcolm McColl liked clearing the road between Loch Spur and Davenport to ‘the equivalent of building a road across the centre of the MCG’. However the clearing of the road meant the beginning of the Hotham Road Gap tradition with skiers like Peter Zirknitzer, Richard Biggins, David Spears and Bailey Johnson all creating iconic images.
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📸Hotham Tunnel, Great Alpine Road, October 2001. Klaus Hueneke Collection, NAMA.
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Cousins Pete and Susie Forras join us on the chairlift this week for our first Après @ NAMA for the season as they share...
09/07/2025

Cousins Pete and Susie Forras join us on the chairlift this week for our first Après @ NAMA for the season as they share their experiences of growing up at Mt Buller living at the Kooroora Chalet and Bull Run Canteen, going to the first Mt Buller Primary School and summers on the mountain.

The museum is open from 5:30pm with the Chairlift Chat kicking off at 6pm, entry is free but donations are greatly appreciated and help support the museum.

If you haven't picked-up a copy of Pete's book about his dad 'A Mountain Pioneer - Aurel Forras' copies will be available to purchase for $49.99 and Pete might even sign one for you!

NAMA, Level 1, Alpine Central, Summit Road, Mt Buller
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