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Neptune Museum

A free museum inside a Colorado mountaineering shop, showing historic climbing, skiing, and expedition gear.

CO

About Neptune Museum

The Neptune Museum, run by Neptune Mountaineering, holds a large collection of mountaineering artifacts. Founder Gary Neptune started it in the late 1970s with his own climbing and skiing memorabilia, and donations from around the world followed. Exhibits cover climbing equipment from early hardware to modern gear, skiing equipment dating back to 1901, and gear from early expeditions. The museum also hosts lectures, many given by figures from mountaineering history.

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  • #climbing history
  • #skiing history
  • #expedition gear
  • #lectures

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