The World Olympic Collectors’ Fair Is Coming to Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs has long worn the Olympic City USA title with genuine pride, and this May, that identity gets a fitting celebration. The World Olympic Collectors’ Fair 2026 arrives at the Antlers Hotel on May 22, bringing together enthusiasts, historians, and dealers from more than a dozen countries for the first U.S. staging of the event since 2018.

The fair is free and open to the general public, offering a rare up-close look at Olympic history spanning pins, badges, torches, medals, vintage photographs, and stamps that stretch back to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. Team USA fans are especially encouraged to bring their own memorabilia to trade, sell, or simply have appraised.

International participation underscores the fair’s reach, with registered collectors from China, France, Italy, Lithuania, India, Slovakia, Germany, and Japan, even as organizers acknowledge a year of hesitation among international travelers. The event opens with a formal ceremony featuring speakers from Visit Colorado Springs, the Colorado Springs Postmaster’s office, and the fair’s co-chairs. Saturday, May 23 wraps the weekend with a dinner and auction hosted at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum.

Side exhibits deepen the experience: Sports Philatelists International, a club serving Olympic stamp collectors since 1962, presents a dedicated philatelic display, while a separate photo exhibit traces the history of Olympic photography from the 1896 Athens Games forward. Fair registrants will also have the opportunity to tour the Crawford Family U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Archives, home to an extensive collection of artifacts, photographs, and manuscripts documenting Team USA’s history back to 1894.

The fair arrives with backing from the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, both serving as official supporters. Co-hosts are the Association Internationale Collectors Olympique (AICO) and the Olympin Collectors’ Club. A follow-up fair in Los Angeles is already scheduled for 2027, timed to the buildup to the LA28 Summer Games.