The virtual ice Skates museum

Welcome...

... in The virtual ice Skates museum. A museum you can visit at the internet only. But, it is open seven days a week and twenty-four hours a day and you do not need to travel and buy a ticket. Ice skates, making ice skates and ice skating are the main themes in this website. Even after a quick tour you will be impressed by what has been designed to please skaters in the past centuries.

This digital museum is the result of almost forty years of searching for ice skates and their history. I strive to show an as complete as possible picture of the cultural and craftsman like background of ice skating. Therefore, if you think you can add information to what you find in these pages, please, do not hesitate and get in contact by clicking the link in the footer.

Bert van Voorbergen

Note: The print upper left shows a detail from The skate maker, a woodcarving from 1694 by the Dutch artist Jan or Caspar Luyken.

This website was first uploaded on
February 2, 2002

The content
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for the last time on
mei 21, 2013

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