Museum

The Museum is a stone building found in all the 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, unless he is depressed, but is always awake at night. Blathers is present in the main room all day, every day. Celeste, Blathers' sister, resides in the Observatory, the second floor of the museum. She will also have to be woken up during the day, but she denies the fact that she was sleeping, claiming that she was just resting her eyes. Like her brother, she is available all day and night.

On the basement floor is The Roost, a small café run by Brewster. Occasionally, there will be special characters hanging out at The Roost's bar (like Kapp'n, Pelly, or Phyllis). K.K. Slider performs there once a week on Saturday night. Upon donating everything the player will be awarded a Museum Model. A player can not donate anything if they are not in their town. Also, if guests are in the player's town, Blathers will not accept any donations.

Bugs
With the net the player can catch bugs in the wild. When the player catches a bug that hasn't been added to the museum yet, it can be donated. Insects are kept in a grassy room, usually nearby similar bugs. Blathers is afraid of bugs and will refuse to touch them, so bugs are handed to him in a container.

Animal Crossing: Wild World layout
The bug exhibits are split into two rooms. Butterflies are in the first room, and so are all the bugs that live on palm trees, under rocks, and in the ground. Pondskaters will also appear in this room. All grass-bound bugs and bugs that live on trees are in the second room. The cockroach, once donated, skitters on the floor of the first room, as well as the flea, who will hop around, and the mousquito, who will skuttle along.

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.

Completing the insect collection
When a player complete the insect collection, Blathers remarks, "Hoo! Is it... even possible? Can the insect collection truly be complete?! I must say, I do not know whether to be elated or absolutely disgusted. Regardless, our thanks! I trust we can rely on your unfailing patronage! Our fate is in your hands!"

Aquarium
Fish can be caught with the Fishing Rod. Fish that haven't already been donated can be given to the museum. They are kept in large tanks of water with other fish. 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.



Paintings
Paintings can be bought from Tom Nook and Crazy Redd, or occasionally found if the player is lucky. However, paintings bought from Redd in Animal Crossing: Wild World and have a chance of being fake, and will be rejected. If the player tries to sell them at Tom Nook's Store, Tom Nook will only pay 10 bells. Forgeries cannot be donated to the museum.

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.



Fossil Gallery
Fossils can be dug up from the ground at star-shaped spots. In, they have to be sent by letter to the Faraway Museum for analysis, and they are returned shortly. In both Wild World and City Folk, Blathers has the license to analyze fossils himself, making the process much faster. 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. There is also a staircase that leads to the upper level of the second room. 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 both rooms.

Completing fossil collection
When all fossils have been donated to the Museum, Blathers will remark, "Hoo hootie HOOOOOOO! You magnificent thing, ! You've done it! The fossil collection... is complete! A splendid achievement! Well done, my dear owlet! Well done, indeed! I trust we can rely on your unfailing patronage! Our fate is in your hands!"

The Roost
Brewster's cafe, the Roost, is in the Basement of the museum. It first appeared in Wild World and appeared again in City Folk. Brewster sells coffee for 200 Bells. On Valentine's Day, Brewster sells hot chocolate. If the player makes friends with Brewster by buying coffee for seven days, he will store gyroids for the player. This, however, is only in City Folk and he will store only store one of each kind of gyroid. On Saturday nights, from 8pm to midnight, K. K. Slider will perform one song for the player, which they can then play in their home on a stereo. Sometimes (City Folk only), villagers may be seen in the cafe. (In Wild World, Resetti or Rover can be found in the cafe.)

The Observatory
In and, Celeste runs the observatory. Up here the player may create, change, or delete constellations, or just view them. Viewing times for created constellations can also be checked.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf
The Museum returns to the game, but the exterior and interior have changed. Firstly the exterior roof is flatter than the previous and instead of the Observatory there is a shop and the player's 'collection room. The aquarium is now larger and it has separate rooms for saltwater and freshwater fish. The saltwater room is now even more extensive. As part of a community project the user can add a second floor which allows them to make four exhibits of their own. When you start out your role as the Mayor, you will find that the Museum will either be located on the left side, or the right side of Main Street.

Glitch

 * If one of the players is deleted, all of their donations stay in the museum, which will result in never getting a Museum Model.