An exhibition at Ghisallo celebrates cycling and skiing heroes
An exhibition at the Ghisallo Museum unites stories of athletes and Alpine landscapes, highlighting the link between sport, territory and the Winter Olympics
From 28 February to 5 April 2026 the Museum of Cycling Madonna del Ghisallo inaugurates the new season reopening with the temporary exhibition "Legendary mountains. Storie di campioni", an exhibition path that puts in dialogue the sceneries of cycling with those of winter sports, ignited by the 2026 edition of the Giochi Olimpici e Paralimpici Invernali. The exhibition has become part of the Cultural Olympiad of Milan Cortina 2026, cultural programme of the Games, and is to all intents and purposes a cultural initiative included in the rich Olympic schedule.
At the top of the Ghisallo Pass, therefore, a parallel slalom of emotions takes shape between athletes of two wheels and winter sports, women and men who have crossed different eras and unforgettable Olympic cycles, leaving indelible traces of sporting feats on the same peaks.
Stelvio, Mortirolo, Cortina Dolomites, Livigno, Predazzo: places to train and to win. At the centre of world attention during the Olympic months, places that for over a century have been the natural theatres of epic cycling battles and historic ski victories.
The exhibition opens the 2026 museum season at the height of the Olympic Games, intercepting the flow of tourists between Milan and the Alpine Olympic venues and offering the public a transversal narrative that combines sporting memory, territory and current events.
Lectures and guided tours are scheduled during the exhibition period, in a cultural project that enhances the deep connection between mountains, blue sport and national identity. A path that can be experienced every day at the Museum, a museum carved into the rock, looking out over the Grigna, up there on the Ghisallo Pass in Magreglio.
