Museum to open devoted to Swiss ski legend Vreni Schneider

Three-time Olympic champion Vreni Schneider is to have a museum in the centre of her home village of Elm. The record-breaking skier has numerous memorabilia at home, which she is now releasing and exhibiting. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Schneider told Swiss public broadcaster, SRF, that she had kept every bib number and every racing suit. Now the time had come to part with all the memorabilia, she said. According to SRF, two women from Glarus approached Schneider with the idea of a museum. Schneider, who was initially sceptical, feared that this might come 30 years too late. But the now 60-year-old finally agreed: "Maybe it's never too late." + Federer and Schneider named Switzerland’s greatest athletes And so 30 years after Schneider's retirement, all the medals, crystal globes, racing suits, race numbers, racing skis and other artefacts belonging to probably the most famous woman from canton Glarus are to be exhibited - in her home town of Elm ...