Did you know that ISHOF has FINA, now World Aquatics, to thank, for it’s International status? When the Swimming Hall of Fame first became an organization we were just a national museum, the “Swimming Hall of Fame. But, in 1968, during the Mexico City Olympic Games, FINA, Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur, the world governing body of the aquatic sports, at their annual meeting, officially recognized the Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale as International, and from then on, we became the “International Swimming Hall of Fame”.
Today, the ISHOF Museum is closed and all of our amazing artifacts are in a climate controlled, state of the art storage facility, as we await the completion of the $220+ million dollar renovation to the ISHOF complex (aquatic facility not included ~ it has already been done). We are looking forward to a new state of the art museum and Hall of Fame to continue to honor ISHOF’s almost 900 international Honorees from around the globe! This year, 2025, our 60th anniversary, we are actually adding four new countries to the ISHOF list, Kuwait, Singapore, India and Tunisia. Welcome!
The 2025 ISHOF Induction Ceremonies will be held in Singapore in conjunction with World Aquatic’s 2025 World Championships, on Monday, July 28 and if you can join us, it will be an experience you won’t want to miss. To read more about it, click here: https://ishof.org/buy-your-tickets-now-ishofs-2025-honoree-induction-ceremony-in-singapore-with-world-aquatics-championships-july-28/
In the meantime, will we all await the new ISHOF, but you can watch this video from 2010, when ISHOF was voted The Best Sports Museum…….
And just for fun, here are some photos from the original museum, that Buck Dawson and Ted Keller created in the 1960’s and 1970’s…….
One day in the near future, we’ll get a new Hall of Fame, a better one, that we’ll make lots of new memories in, but for now, it’s fun to look at the good ole days on International Museum Day!