For Immediate Release Press Contact: National Museum of Roller Skating 4730 South St. Lincoln, NE, 68506 Peggy Young pyoung@rollerskatingmuseum.org Release Date: 06/16/2026 Lincoln, NE - With support from Humanities Nebraska through the National Endowment for the Humanities ARPA Grant, the National Museum of Roller Skating began an ambitious project in 2022 to digitally catalog the museum’s entire collection. The mission of the National Museum of Roller Skating remains the s

For Immediate Release Press Contact: National Museum of Roller Skating 4730 South St. Lincoln, NE, 68506 Peggy Young pyoung@rollerskatingmuseum.org Release Date: 05/10/2026 Lincoln, NE – The National Museum of Roller Skating, the only museum in the world dedicated to roller skating, announces new board leadership and three newly elected members. Appointed as NMRS's incoming Board of Trustees President is Ed Hughes. Hughes, the owner of Northland Rolladium Skate Center, Libert

On March 2, 2026, the Lincoln Journal Star reported that our home city, Lincoln, Nebraska, might welcome a roller rink once more. You can read that story here. We wanted to share a little history lesson on the rinks of Lincoln. The most recent attempt at establishing a rink in Lincoln came from Cassie Stout. Stout led an alternative rink effort, the GoodLife Skate Center, which ran from 2021 to 2023. Alternative rinks, also called pop-up rinks, generally appear at various ven

From the Lincoln Journal Star, the NMRS is excited to share this news from our home city. Check it out here: https://journalstar.com/news/local/government-politics/article_dc74ff26-e5f1-49df-80ff-53722af4baac.html

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