Opening the museum is an important part of getting to a 5 star island. It is also very important if you want to get the DIY recipe for the shovel, which will be very useful. However, it can be difficult to figure out how to open the museum. Luckily, this guide will help you open the museum on your island.
Steps
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Turn on your console. The first thing you should do is craft a flimsy fishing rod and a flimsy net. Tom Nook should have given you the DIY recipe earlier in the game. To craft them, you first need to 10 sticks, which can be found under trees or by shaking the trees by pressing A . Once you have gathered the materials, head to the crafting table in resident services, which is the green tent in the plaza, and craft the flimsy fishing rod and the flimsy net.
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Catch at least 5 different types of fish and bugs. You can catch fish by casting your fishing rod near a shadow in any body of water, which includes ponds, rivers and lakes, and pressing A when the fish bites your line. You can catch bugs by equipping your net and pressing A when you get close to a bug. Bugs can be found flying around, on the ground, on flowers, hanging from trees when you shake them, on trees, and on tree stumps.Advertisement
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Head towards the green resident services tent in the top right corner of the plaza. This is the same place you should have gone to craft your flimsy net and flimsy fishing rod. Once inside, talk to Tom Nook (he is the big raccoon) and donate the 5 different types of bugs or fish. He will then call his friend Blathers the owl and tell him to come to your island.
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Choose a location for the museum. Tom Nook should have given you a kit to choose the location for the museum after he called Blathers. When you are at the location where you want the museum, open your inventory and select on the kit. To build it in the location where you are, select "Build here" if you changed your mind about where you want the museum, select "I need to rethink it. If you want to imagine what it would look like, select "Let me imagine it."
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Keep in mind that this is not the permanent location for the museum. However, to change the location, you first need to upgrade resident services, and pay a moving fee of 50,000 bells. Because of this, you should choose a location for the museum that you like enough to have it there for a few weeks.
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Wait until the next day. When you first walk over to the location you chose for the museum, the first thing you will notice is that there is a tent in the location you choose. Walk inside and you will meet Blathers the owl. Talk to him, and he will tell you that in order to open the museum, you must donate 15 unique critters to him. They cannot be the same 5 critters that you already donated.
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Find the 15 different types of critters for Blathers. Even in the winter, when there aren't as many types of bugs, this shouldn't be too hard. If you are having a hard time, try fishing in different places, as certain fish only spawn in certain places, like a pond, or the place where the river and ocean meet.
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Donate the critters to Blathers. Once you have found all the critters needed, head back into the tent and speak to Blathers to donate the bugs and fish. Once you donate them all, he will first thank you, and then he will mention that he can now set up the museum, and that construction will begin right away.
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Wait two days. On the day after donating all the critters to Blathers, the place you choose for the museum should be covered in a big green tent. The day after that, the museum should be fully open and ready. The museum never closes, however, Blathers will appear to fall asleep during the day because he is an owl, but you can always wake him up whenever you want.Advertisement
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- If you are having a difficult time finding different types of fish and bugs, try looking in different locations. Fish can spawn in rivers, clifftop rivers, a pond, the ocean, or the place where the ocean and the river meet. Many fish spawn at different times of day, too. Bugs can be found in many places, including on tree stumps, on flowers, underground, on trees, flying around, and walking on the ground. Certain bugs are also only out at certain times of the day.Thanks
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