Like in previous Animal Crossing games, collecting every type of fossil, bug, and fish is a huge part of the gameplay in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so having a identify to show off your collection is important. You'll demand to unlock the museum in social club to do this, as it'south where you lot'll donate your specimens if you don't want to sell, gift, or continue them. Curator Blathers is responsible for the museum, and yous'll be able to donate items straight to him. You'll need to unlock the museum as you work toward getting your outset shovel.

As of the April 23 update, yous can also upgrade the museum. This upgrade introduces an fine art wing where you tin showcase any (legitimate) fine art you've bought from Jolly Redd. We detail how to unlock this museum upgrade below.

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Below we detail the step-past-step procedure of building and and so upgrading the museum on your island. For more than tips, exist sure to bank check out our Brute Crossing: New Horizons guide hub and coin-making guide. Otherwise, exist sure to read our review.

How To Unlock The Museum

From day one you can commencement the process of unlocking the museum. On your first day on the island, afterward the tutorial department, Tom Nook will accept five different fish or bugs. He is gathering these in the hopes that the native flora and fauna on the isle will exist enough to entice Blathers to motility to the island. It works, of class--after handing in the fifth specimen, Blathers volition ring Tom Nook and agree to arrive on the island the next day.

Tom Nook will then give you a camping tent to lay downwards for Blathers and the future site of the museum. This will be the spot where the museum will eventually be congenital, and so brand certain to pick somewhere yous similar, as it will be a while until you unlock the power to move buildings around.

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Once Blathers arrives on the second day, he'll take donations of bugs, fish, and fossils (though he needs to appraise the fossils first). As referenced above, he too gives yous DIY recipes for the shovel and vaulting pole, which will help you dig upward fossils and admission more of your island.

To get him out of a tent and into a real building, you'll need to donate an additional 15 bugs and/or fish. Don't worry nearly the specimens you take handed over, as all 20 of them will be in the museum once it opens and will count towards your collections.

On the third day, if you managed to hand in all the specimens on both days, the museum will be under construction. We recommend holding on to any bugs, fish, and fossils you detect on this day and then you lot can donate them when the museum opens the following 24-hour interval. One time the museum is complete (on the fourth twenty-four hour period, if you've been fast-tracking this process), Blathers will accept multiple donations at one time.

How To Upgrade The Museum

Once y'all've downloaded the April 23 update, y'all'll be able to upgrade the museum to add together an art wing. Co-ordinate to twitter user @_Ninji, who has been datamining the game, you lot first need to have donated threescore items (fish, bugs, and/or fossils) to the museum before y'all can unlock the fine art fly. As long every bit you lot're catching the seasonal bugs and fish and collecting four fossils per 24-hour interval, you lot should be able to reach 60 donations in a few weeks.

Once you lot've reached threescore donations, Blathers will let you lot know that he'due south thinking of accepting art donations and will ask y'all to evidence him the first slice of art yous get. (This volition happen automatically when you talk to Blathers once you've met the donation requirement; yous don't need to count or keep rails yourself.) Jolly Redd will show up on your island the next day and sell you a 18-carat piece of art--meet our total guide to Redd's art for more details. Once y'all donate your first piece of art to Blathers, the museum will upgrade. Information technology will close for construction the adjacent solar day, and the 24-hour interval later that, information technology will open with the brand-new art wing!

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