If you read the articles on the German Road Races pages, then you have undoubtedly seen the name Victah Sailer quite often - along side the copyright info for the photos for many of the articles. Victah is a well-known photographer of athletics, especially for the sport of running. At all of the major international athletics events, whether in London, Boston, Chicago, Berlin - or just recently in Frankfurt and next weekend in New York City - Victah is there (out in the front) - on the back of a motorcycle, where he shoots his photos.

The Berlin Sports Museum was created on the basis of the Berlin Museum for Physical Exercise (Museum für Leibesübungen zu Berlin) (1924-1934) and the sports collections in East and West Berlin since 1945. It documents the history of exercise, gymnastics, sport and games from their beginnings to the present.

The Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running has received one very special artefact for the exhibition: The “Golden Shoe” from the AIMS/ASICS World Athlete of the Year Award.

From the perspective of my activities with the museum, the year 2011 started off in a surprising and delightful way. On Sunday, January 2, 2011, I received an email saying: "You can have all of my scrapbooks, trophies, gear, etc. for the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running! Do you want to come pick it all up with a truck, or should I bring it by!?"

Wim Verhoorn from the Netherlands is a big name in the international running world. He was race director of the Twente Marathon for years, and he provided the ideas behind numerous other race events. At the same time, he was a trainer for the association, coaching numerous athletes. This meant that his range of influence reached well beyond Europe, as he attended both large and small running events in Asia, South America, the USA and Africa, and he knew and was known by everyone.

This section “Artefact of the Month” actually should have been dedicated to Dr. David Martin numerous times already. He has come to Berlin three times from Atlanta, Georgia with 80 – 100 kg of luggage – so much that it could hardly be carried – and the contents were always meant for the Berlin Sports Museum - AIMS Marathon Museum of Running.

The Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running - , a museum dedicated to running, the marathon and athletics, which is located in the Berlin Olympic Park, is being specially presented by German Road Races (GRR). While there is an emphasis on the collection of artefacts from this “area of sport”, the Berlin Sports Museum collects items from all kinds and disciplines of sports.

Thomas Willaschek from the Berlin Sports Museum - AIMS Marathon Museum of Running - could hardly control his excitement when two days ago a rare artefact landed on his desk – a starting pistol that was created shortly after World War II in Berlin.