Although Gary Neptune sold off Neptune Mountaineering, he still owns the items in the Neptune Mountaineering Museum housed within the retail store and he has just finished a redesign of those hallowed grounds. “The redesign has been an exciting project for me, the biggest difference is that the space, provided by the store’s new owner, allows many items to be at eye level and displayed in a much more coherent fashion than before,” he says. “A majority of the museum is located in the area that we use every week for presentations, but the museum fixtures will be moveable and it is now a great public area.”
The museum houses various pieces of climbing and skiing equipment, mainly from the most significant period of mountain and polar exploration, the mid 1800s to the last half of the 20th century. There is also a large collection of photographs from this period. Many of the museum exhibits will now be distributed throughout the 15,000-square-foot store and the redesign will be aimed at organizing parts of the current collection, creating more story lines and enhancing the value for the skiing and climbing community from all over the world.
