A Little Museum Tour! 🖼️🎨
Hello everybody, Chloe here for a new Patreon post! Today, I will show you all more of the museum, including the new store we have created, a sneak peek at the different floors, and a new type of collectible for you to discover around town: paintings!
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Museum Shop
In our newly added museum shop, you will find exclusive items on sale! The museum is located in a rather touristic area of town, so it also doubles as the town’s gift shop.
It’s hard showing so much merchandise featuring the castle without actually showcasing the castle (which we will reveal later on)! We would like to add some wearable merch on sale eventually as well, like hats and shirts.
Introducing Hector! Hector is the museum’s mascot. He likes to learn and to share his knowledge of the town’s natural resources and history with his friends. Figured I would introduce him first, since you’ll see a lot of him.
Hector’s two friends, Amber and August.
If you wanted to have a piece of the town on your walls, you’ll want these posters! (or if you like Hector, either works!). You just know Hector is the kind of furry friend to make puns all the time.
Two designs of puzzles are on sale, and you can buy the box or the puzzle as seen on the top shelf! To note, puzzles are currently not functional and are purely for cosmetic purposes. Also, I’m not showing you the other puzzle design: it’s too much of a spoiler of the castle! 🤫
Is it truly a gift shop if it doesn’t sell arguably low-quality mugs???
For those of you who collect our postcards, you will surely recognize them all on this postcard rack!
Museum Tour
Now then, let us take a quick look at the different floors and exhibits of the museum!
As you enter the museum, you will be greeted by a little photo op! Take the time to snap a pic of your Paras with Hector, August and town landmarks.
Along with the museum shop, you will also come across some trophies in the museum’s entrance hall. When you donate enough collectibles to the museum, you will receive some goodies as a way of thanks. They will increase in value and rarity the more you donate! There is also a cool *exclusive goodie if you reach the max donation level. It won’t be easy to get to there, though!
The local mushrooms can be donated to be displayed on the natural resources floor. There are currently 19 different mushrooms to collect around town!
You also have 18 types of gemstones to collect. Can you tell which are rarer and more valuable just from how they were displayed?
We have two sections for artefacts, one for each of the town's two main eras. This section is more for an industrial period, and the other is more of a medieval period. Some of the artifacts are quite small! (the display in the back is not empty, ahah!) There are 30 artifacts to collect, with more on the way.
This is how this part of the room looks without the artifacts! The museum will look quite bare in the beginning, and it will be up to you to make it complete.
Museum curators have their own dedicated office, which is full of knowledge and boxes! Maybe there are more collectibles in those boxes?
Art Floor
Our newest addition to collectibles is paintings. They are real paintings, as you can see in real-world museums, and they are to scale, too! You may recognize a few. We currently have 40 paintings for you to collect! You will be able to collect them in buried chests across the town, just like artefacts, and donate them to the museum.
A buried trunk in the town. Some are well-hidden, some not so much. Different chests will spawn at different places on different days, so keep an eye out!
Some paintings are quite big, like La Liberté Guidant le Peuple by Eugène Delacroix. You may need to raise your walls to be taller if you want to display it in your home!
Meanwhile, some paintings are quite small! I didn’t realize that Vermeer’s paintings were so small until I added them to the game.
While we added some classics, we also added some less common paintings that we liked. We also tried to vary the time period and origin of the paintings, although most "famous works" tend to be from 1800s Europe!
We hope you will like discovering paintings in the museum!
That’s it for today’s museum tour. Hope you have enjoyed, and that you look forward to scavenging through the town to fill your museum! We look forward to adding more collectibles after the game’s initial release, as well as expanding the museum’s selection of goods.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Chloé (๑˘︶˘๑)
Comments (85)
It's gonna be interesting to visit. I love museum. Can we buy snacks or the snack machine just exists?
I'm absolutely thrilled with how detailed the museum is. It looks fun, interactive, it's not just a building with pictures. You know what you're doing! :-)
Concordo plenamente,tá incrível,eles realmente estão focados nós detalhes que fazem assim o jogo mais imersivo e aconchegante.😊🤎
The gift shop is adorable and the paintings are lovely! Perhaps a section for ukiyo-e woodblock prints from Japan? Most everyone will recognize Hokusai's "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa."
Speaking about the size of paintings, and having to change the height of walls for them, I'm wondering can we change the size of paintings? That is something I miss from TS4 every time I play the older Sims games, that and being able to place things on the walls more where we want, so I would like it if it was that way in Paralives. Unrelated, I also miss being able to have multiple outfits for each category, and I am hoping that will be added to the game soon after its released, I frankly don't understand any life sim game not having that, not since TS4 did it. Its one of many reasons I hate InZOI, though it's not why I used HATE, as I said there are many reasons I don't like that game. I have to admit I have a hard time imagining how a game can turn around and add such big game changers to a game, after it's released to the public, even with it being early access. And though I have seen InZOI make big sweeping changes to their game since release on early access ( though it didn't really improve on the game, if you ask me ) so I get it is possible, its just hard to imagine it sometimes!
Hi! I'll have to double check but I think paintings done through the painting skill are rescalable! We did add the ability to create multiple outfits for each category of outfit so it will be there at launch!
I love how much there is to do
oh my gosh!!! the paralives postcards being on the rack in game is so cool!! :') and I love the curators' office! I adore things like that that make the town/buildings feel real and lived in. You all always do such a great job bringing those lifelike details to the world <3 hmmm I'm starting to think I will need to do a playthrough as Emma Wake, become good friends with the Patels, and fill my time as a retiree discovering artifacts for the museum!!
I'm really loving the life sim genre fusion happening here -- I enjoy the collection aspects of Animal Crossing for example, and the Sims for the storytelling customization. And as a real life museum professional I do love the inclusion of museums in my life sims hehe
So excited for this! The museum looks so great and complete, love that it has a gift shop with unique products (hope the town will have more items in general that we don’t get automatically in paramaker or build mode - like new hairstyles in the hairdresser and different/seasonal/themed clothes in shops, etc) Can’t wait to find out what else the castle will have to offer on the other 2 parts of it 🤓🤓🤓
Will there be ancient worlds in the game? Like medieval Europe, Ancient Greece, etc.
Hi, thanks for your question! Ancient worlds won't be in our game, but the idea is super cool! :)
The level and dedication to this game astounds me every single time! Also the attention to detail is amazing! I’m so excited for this game! My favorite way to play any game is Rags to Riches style, this will be perfect!
holy!! "h# that is a great idea! cant wait..
hector my beloveddd
uuuuuu this looks so good, i can't wait to be able to visit the museum in game myself. i love that we can donate our colectibles and actually see them in the museum afterwards! so cool! however i would love if there was a way, a cheat perhaps, to fill out the museum without doing it ourselves. i can deffinetely see myself having fun trying to get every single item, but also sometimes i might just want to go to the museum with my paras without having to spend x hours finding everything beforehand. will there be an option like that?
Hi! There won't be a cheat for this in the game, but it's a great suggestion for something to have in the future, thank you :)
Can't wait to get some photos in the photo ops. Love the collectibles aspect! Gonna be good!!
aww hector is so cute! And I much appreciate the artefacts and the real life paintings to collect and learn more about them. When donating to the museum does the reward count only for the current para / family or are there account wide rewards as well? Just wondering how the system works when playing with different families. Anyways, can't wait to play <3
This whole system screams “I’m going to spend way too many hours completing this”!! honestly one of my favorite gameplay features you’ve shown so far (having a musem plus a gift Shop!! 😍), it feels very alive and replayable, not just decorative :0
do we know if we can use and buy the bags in the gift shop? i already want to get all three of the little plushies its so stinking cute! and the MUGS! you can't go wrong with a mug collection! i'm so excited. this game just keeps beating my expectations ❤️🤩
At the moment they are just decorative (in Build Mode), but it would be cool to have bags in the PAM one day!
Wait we can become museum curators?? Omggggg I can’t wait!!😍😍😍
This is such an amazing feature, and the mascots add the perfect amount of cuteness! I can't wait to discover all the treasures scattered throughout the town. Thanks so much for making this incredible game! 🥰🌇
Oh, I love the paintings, the merch and especially the plushies 🥰
This is absolutely amazing!! (keeping my fingers crossed for soon to be functional puzzles lol)
Paralives is going to ruin my slp schedule, i can feel it
this is so cute and fun! i love that there's more of a reason to go around town, and go to the museum. such a cute idea! and i already love Hector, i need a real life plush of him 😂
Is it possible to add your own favorite works of art to the collectibles? Using the mod system? I don't mean uploading them as posters or paintings to hang in your house, we already know this is possible; I mean can you add other works to the list of paintings you selected that you can find around town?
Hi! Yes, that is moddable
Help I'm so in love with this game 😭😭
I love the museum! My favourite part of animal crossing so 😍 In the classical art part, it would be cool to have sculpture to. Also it might be easier to get non European piecea that are famous, but it does require more works to make them.
We would like to add sculptures! It definitely requires more work though, thus why we didn't do them. It would be a fun addition some time down the line though! :)
Oh well, I love this
I WANT THE MUSHROOMS!! 🍄 🤣 love it!!
Omg I love Hector and his friends! My first para is definitely gonna be a mushroom lover who is obsessed with collecting oddities
this is too cute!!! i’m so happy you added the postcards in the game 😊
I love, love museums, collectibles, treasure hunts, and our postcards to boot!! Yay! Keep them coming! ✨️
the museum looks so good!! i love the idea of discovering real-world art through the game so that more people get to interact with it and experience it in a virtual museum. It would be nice for museum to have art classes in future, if thats not already possible
I love all the details on the items in the gift shop and the museum! Can we hang the postcards up like paintings or put them on our para's fridges?
Well love you Paralives team!
This is SO cute. I love how the museum makes collecting feel tied to the town, and gives you a reason to go out and explore.
This is so cute!! Reminds me a lot of the museum in Animal Crossing, and I love that feature!! I’m curious about your plans to add to and expand the museum collectables after EA. It would be super cool to have a sort of natural history area, with plants, fish, and insects!! It would be so awesome too if the fish went in a tank after collecting them so it’s like an aquarium! Also, will we be able to edit the design of the museum in build mode, or is it locked??
you will not be able to modify the museum! (well, unless you use cheats, that is) Expanding the museum is definitely a possibility, and it would be super cool to have eventually!
This is all very cute ! I'm not personally big on collectibles (in games and IRL, actually XD ), but I really like the idea of a museum that progressively gets filled with things to look at. And the gift shop is an EXCELLENT idea ! I also like that there's town mascots, too. I wonder if we'll have a Hector costume (and maybe August and Amber too !), for Paras to dress up for Halloween and such but also... as a job, imagine working at the museum as a giant Hector ! XD My favorite part of the whole museum thing is probably that there's different sections : an artistic side, and a natural history side. Which actually makes me wonder whether dinosaur fossils have ever been found in Town... How exciting it would be for children to go look at these skeletons full of history ! (...ok and for me, I'm a dinosaur geek :P ) Do Paras gain something by visiting the museum ? For instance do Paras with a Talent in arts gain happiness/inspiration/skill by browsing paintings ? Does the natural resource floor provide a similar boost, or artifacts, to different talents ? It'd be great to take kids (or not kids !) to the museum, for instance, and get them to LEARN something. Maybe not for the May release, but at some point during Early Access ?
At the moment there aren't any buffs to visiting the museum, but having some learning boosts would be cool to have eventually! The museum is a great place to meet Townies though, and you are encouraged to donate to the museum to get some exclusive goodies :)
Will we be able to place additional "community lots" in the town ? Like more parcs, shops or a second museum. And if we can, how will it work since it's user made ?
creating lots/community lots in not planned for the Early Access release, but it will come later when we release the Town building tools!
The Art floor does make me curious about the Painting skill and if that means you can expect to see your Para’s own works in a Gallery or Museum. I also need to know if the interaction for donating a collectible is “It belongs in a museum!”
That would be really cool, but it's not planned at the moment! It would be really cool to have a gallery one day where your Para could exhibit paintings... it's just a thought, though!
I’m beyond excited for this release! May can’t come soon enough for me lol
This is beautiful.
Le musée est vraiment magnifique ! Kudos pour toutes ces superbes petites nouveautés ❤️✨ j'ai déjà hâte de rassembler mes collectes au musée
Will there be a way to buy stuff from the museum? Say I still want to complete it, but I also want a specific painting or artefact in my house, is there a way to have both? Or for example some artefacts showing up a second time where you could either keep that second one or sell it
you will be able to get dupes (multiple copies of the same painting) as we don't have a limit of how many time you can get say, the Mona Lisa, so you will be able to have one to donate + one to keep at home!
I love everything about it. I'm so excited!!!! 😍😍😍😍💕 The only thing I would wish for in the future is that there would be different bookshelves. You can see that they were copied and placed side by side. It would be great if there could be two or three different arrangements of the bookshelves, or completely empty ones, so that we have to decorate them ourselves and they're still functional (if that's even possible). Also, I have a question: Once the museum is completely filled and my Para has other family members, will the museum be filled forever, or will it empty itself after the Para who donated everything dies?
Hi! There is an option to have every bookshelf empty, and the books are all individual items (well, clusters of books!) so players can freely place them as they want. We can't really do that for all the builds in the game, since it would take a while, but the option is there for players! The museum will stay full forever in the save after it has been completed!
Love! My para's will spend a lot of time in the museum. I am already obsessed with Hector. Love all of the museum merch really cool idea.
Will there be in game cameras like paras taking pictures with there phone?
Not at the moment!
C'est trop beau ! Mais c'est dommage que le puzzle n'est pas fonctionnel, ça aurait été chouette.
The museum looks great! I love that gameplay mechanic! It will make traveling around and discovering the town so much fun!
Obviously we can't see all the paintings you chose to include but make sure they aren't all by white men. Representation is important in this area too
Agreed! I'd love to see works from not just European and Western countries. Some African art from the different regions of the continent would be very encouraging to see.
Ahhh, making a mental note to spend all my days in the museum. :3 Also please tell me there will be IRL Hector plushies.
And this mushroom Plushie!! 😍🙏
I don't work at a museum, but my job is also about cultural heritage. I'm glad you also included the office space for the curators! Is it available as a career for the Paras? I would love to work there in the future when *maybe* we'll have active jobs. Thanks!
Yes, it is an available occupation for Paras! there are multiple positions available for the museum
Love that it has a gift shop and a MASCOT!!🥰 And is that a LOOM I SEE?!🤩
ARE YOU KIDDING THAT MASCOT GUY IS SO CUTE
The castle is shown in several places, posters, puzzles, post cards, the photo op... so is this not what the caslte looks like? Also, I love Hector.
We have shown drawings of it, but not the real and *full* thing! the part that is drawn on the hector poster, for example, is only one part out of three of the castle!
This is so cute! Merch of the town and museum, love that idea
Omg so much stuff!!! I love collecting in games (because I also collect irl lol) so this is gonna be so much fun! Can items like artefacts, mushrooms etc. Be found multiple times? It would be nice if a para could have a little collection at home too maybe 👉👈 also are there postcards a para can buy and collect or even send to others/ is this something that you are considering to add? I love when collectables are also usable in some way (though I know that this is probably not possible at EA launch lol, would be nice down the line though). Also I have another question, would clothing items that will be bought like shirts locked/hidden in the paramaker? I find it a little sad when stuff is already all unlocked, it would be nice if the stuff would have to be unlocked by purchasing beforehand! God I'm so excited for the game I can't wait :D
Hello! To answer your questions in order: Yes, all collectibles can be found more than once! That way, you can donate one to the museum, and keep the other copies for yourself! (to display, or to sell) The postcards aren't functional, but it would be a fun thing to have! While not all things are store-exclusive, the things that are are locked/hidden until they are purchased at the store. So for example, all the museum items would be inacessible from the build mode and pam, and you need to get them at the store!
Looks great! Can’t wait to collect all of the items when the game comes out!
This looks so beautiful! You could definitely find me at the shop 😂
Seconding the calls for IRL plushies and adding the puzzle as merch to the list
Awww Hector is adorable!! I want a plushie of him irl he is too cute. And the poster of him with the mushroom plush with the castle is cute. It would be perfect for a kids room.
I love the fact you have real paintings, especially ones so beautiful! Must have been difficult to choose which ones to add to the game.
It was! There are so many gorgeous paintings to chose from!!
The museum looks beautiful with those artefacts! I want to visit it now! In addition, those museum items at the shop, I would like to see those at the shop as Paralives merch! Sorry for the long response. I have a question though that relates to the museum shop indirectly, do you guys have plans on selling game merch (like those in the museum shop) after game release? Also can kleptomaniac paras steal items from the museum and sell it?
It's something we think about, but something we are also unsure of! Creating merch would be a whole undertaking in itself!
HECTOR LOOKS SO ADORABLE😍✨!! I'd definitely buy the plushie if it was real(also a Doggo/Stella one).
I need that beaver plushie right now!