Museum

The Museum is a white-brick building found in all the Animal Crossing games. It is an establishment for the collection and display of insects, fish, paintings, and fossils. The curator, an owl named Blathers, will have to be woken up during the day, but is always awake at night. Celeste, Blather's sister resides in the Observatory, in the upstairs of the museum, and will also have to be woken up during the day but she denies the fact that she was sleeping and she claims that she is just resting her eyes. Downstairs is The Roost, a small café run by Brewster. He is always awake. You can also watch K.K. Slider there.

Bugs
With the net you can catch bugs in the wild. When you catch a bug that hasn't been added to the museum yet, you can donate it. Insects are kept in a grassy room with everything they need to live. Blathers is afraid of bugs and will refuse to touch them so when you donate them, they are in a bug cage.

Animal Crossing: Wild World layout
The big exhibits are split into two rooms. butterflies are in the first room, while all grass-bound bugs are in the second room.

Animal Crossing: City Folk layout
All bugs are in one big room which is split into three levels. The first level has all the butterflies, located near the entrance with insects that can be found near or in water. The second level, which is connected to the first by a small slope, is set up like a small wooded area. The rafflesia, a large flower that appears in a town when there are too many weeds, is next to the slope. The third level, which is also connected by a small slope to the second level, is open planned, with trees surrounding the wall at the top of the room with a few heat lamps.



Fish
By fishing with the fishing rod you can catch fish. Fish that haven't already been donated can be given to the museum. They will be kept in a large tank of water with other fish that you can see whenever you wish. There are lots of different fish to donate, from goldfish to sharks, and only one of each kind can be held in the tanks.

Animal Crossing: Wild World layout
In Wild World, the fish section divides into two rooms. All river, pond, river pool, and waterfall fish are kept in two tanks in the first room, while all ocean fish are kept in one large tank in the second room that is located to the north of the first.

Animal Crossing: City Folk layout
In City Folk, all fish are in one room. Most ocean fish, including the hammerhead shark, are found in a very large tank that spans across the entire northern part of the room. Small ocean fish, like the surgeonfish, are kept in a long, tube-shaped tank in the southeast corner of the room. Most small river fish, like the guppy, are in the southwest corner of the room in a similar tank. All other river, pond, river pool, and waterfall fish, like the carp and char, are kept in the middle of the room in two tanks.

Coecanth can only be caught when it is raining after 4pm. Shark and Hammerhead almost always appear after 4pm in June, July and August. Late night fishing in the summer usually gives you the most expensive fish most often at the ocean.



Paintings
You can buy paintings from Tom Nook and Crazy Redd, or find them if you're lucky. Be warned, paintings you buy from Redd in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk have a chance of being fake, and will be rejected.

Animal Crossing: Wild World layout
The paintings are all in one room. There are many aisles of paintings. The pathway to the next row of paintings curves and twists.

Animal Crossing: City Folk layout
The paintings exhibit in City Folk is split up into two rooms; a main room and a back room. Most paintings are displayed in the main room. In the back room, there is a single row of paintings along the wall of the room. The rope divider in the middle of the room guards the Famous Painting once it is donated.



Fossils
Fossils can be dug up from the ground at star-shaped spots. In Animal Crossing (GCN), you will have to send them by letter to the Faraway Museum for analysis, they will be returned shortly. In both Wild World and City Folk, Blathers has the license to analyze fossils himself, making the process much shorter. When you finish a dinosaur, he will give you more information on it. Fossils can be pieced together to form complete skeletons, and upon completion Blathers will give the player information on the dinosaur. In City Folk, this section of the museum has two rooms and floors. One-piece fossils, like ammonites and coprolites, are kept upstairs in the second room. The Wild World museum also has two rooms but they are on the same floor. One-piece fossils can be found in either room.

The Roost
Brewster's cafe, the Roost, is below the ground. It did not appear in Animal Crossing. Brewster sells coffee for 200 Bells. On Valentine's Day, Brewster sells hot chocolate. If the player makes friends with Brewster, he will store gyroids for you. He will do this after you buy coffee every single day for almost 3 weeks. This, however, is only in City Folk and he will only store 1 of each gyroid. On Saturday nights, after 8pm, K. K. Slider will appear so you can listen to his songs. He is the only pigeon working in the Museum.

The Observatory
Celeste runs the observatory. Up here you may create, change or delete constellations, or just view them if you like. You may also check the top viewing times of the constellations you've created.