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Mishmash Museum
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TV museums tend to be very badly organized. It is not unusual to find suits of medieval plate armor, Egyptian sarcophagi, stuffed grizzly bears, priceless cut jewels, giant cutaway models of the human body, and Tyrannosaurus skeletons all in the same room... which has, in addition, a few dozen Old Masters hanging on the walls and modern abstract sculpture in the corners. Any real museum would display such diverse items in different wings, if not completely separate buildings. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In general, the less time the characters spend in a museum, the more this trope applies. TV episodes and movies with extended museum sequences are more likely to have exhibits properly categorized, as it is more fun to have the characters racing from wing to wing in order to find what they need to defeat the artifact thieves, magically reanimated dinosaur skeletons, or whatnot. Note that this trope can have a little basis in reality: the very first museums were created to display whatever odd objects that their patrons owned, so they placed different objects together because they were from the same owner. They were often called "cabinets of curiosities", and their intent was often to show the diversity and oddity of the whole world. There are also still small museums that embrace the mishmash because they don't have enough space or they don't know better. In addition, some museums may appear this way at first but follow a less noticeable theme, such as the history of the museum's location. Examples of these within museums that normally don't follow this could be considered an exhibit design equivelent of a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. Compare the Museum of the Strange and Unusual, which may be this if it has a lot of strange and unusual things and isn't just, say, the World's Largest Ball of String. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: While the Treacherous Mansion generally has its museum exhibits delineated in ways that make sense and reference the themes seen in all previous locations, the first floor northwest room based on the Secret Mine has an igloo and a woolly mammoth together apparently only because they're both associated with ice. Justified in-universe: according to Professor E. Gadd, the guy who built the place was rather kooky. | |
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While not actually a museum, the residence of The Addams Family was deliberately styled this way to help emphasize their strangeness. Highlights from the living room alone include a massive stuffed swordfish (with stuffed human leg sticking out of its mouth) on the walls, a giant stuffed bear in one corner (traded for an Inuit totem pole in the last episode of season 1), a polar bear-skin rug (that roared when stepped on) on the stairs, and a stuffed giant turtle with two heads. | |
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In the episode "The Waxman Cometh" on Wings, Lowell purchases a wax museum with an inheritance. After a renovation, Lowell creates a mini "Hall of Presidents", which also includes Ricardo Montalbán. | |
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Springfield Museum of Natural History from The Simpsons. In the season 17 episode "The Monkey Suit", they have the Women's Weaving Show next to the History of Weapons and an exhibition on Darwin's theories. | |
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In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe audio drama Hornets' Nest: The Dead Shoes, the Cromer Palace of Curios is like this: | |
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In Ozy and Millie, when the characters are asked what they learned on a school museum trip, Ozy's answer is that "the museum here has no particularly coherent theme". | |
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Ripley's Odditorium located on Hollywood Boulevard of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame. | |
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In Dr. Havoc's Diary's "Black Superhero", we have Cardboard Box Exhibits, Exit Sign Exhibits, and (possibly) Janitor's Closet exhibits...all in the same room (maybe). | |
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Averted in Tokyo Mew Mew, where Ichigo and Masaya's first date is specifically spent in a separate wing of the museum devoted to conservation and endangered animals. | |
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The museum in one of the first few episodes of Futari wa Pretty Cure almost avoids this, as it's specifically an art museum with basically just realistic paintings on the walls and a few sculptures. They just couldn't help but throw in a few suits of armor, apparently. | |
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Can happen in Civilization V and VI if a player has a museum open whose items on display don't have a coherent theme going, for example three separate art paintings that are not created from the same time period or three artifacts that aren't from the same era and different cultures. Averting this situation with artifact swaps or other means to acquire the necessary items means a museum that can get bonus tourism for being able to tell an overall story from all the items under the same roof. | |
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Soft Museum in NiGHTS into Dreams… is pretty much anything that might be in a museum placed into a pretty large structure, all of which, as the name implies, is soft to the touch. Justified, however, as this exists in a dream world, where things don't have to make sense. | |
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Also on Radio 4, The Museum of Everything. Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Aversion: The Da Vinci Code was filmed in the real Louvre...albeit a Louvre that a naked 80-year-old man managed to traipse around about half of while bleeding to death in order to rub graffiti behind paintings. | |
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Semi-averted and justified in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. The opening museum has all kinds of weird stuff in it, including the device of the title, but it is divided into categories. That these categories are rather arbitrary is, of course, thematic. (The periscope is the glassware section and not the optical instruments section, but surely there's some arcane reason for it...) Also justified by being Truth in Television, as that museum exists in real life. | |
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In the first Kim Possible movie, A Sitch in Time, a primitive monkey idol is kept in the same room as an Egyptian sarcophagus and at least one dinosaur skeleton... and a giant fishbowl. | |
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Averted in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, as the Aztec, Egyptian, and Civil War exhibits are kept separate. | |
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The Redpath Museum in Montreal is home to several stuffed animals, fully articulated skeletons of Gorgosaurus and Dromaeosaurus, an Egyptian mummy, a seashell collection, a mineral collection, some trilobite fossils, a samurai suit of armour, a fossil of an aquatic lizard, Chinese shoes made for bound feet, charts showing the dinosaur family tree and the phylogenetic tree of all life on Earth, an anaconda skeleton, a Triceratops skull, a banner made out of human teeth, skeletons of two whales, a sea lion and a turtle and a giant origami pterosaur, all in about two and a half floors of space. In other words, it looks exactly, inside and out, like every natural history museum stereotype ever. It's awesome.note Oh, and it's appeared in Dinosaurs Decoded. | |
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In Batman & Robin, the Gotham Museum of Art features exhibits on dinosaurs, diamonds, and Greek vases all in the same room. | |
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Mostly averted in Animal Crossing: The museum in the games is mostly focused on natural sciences, having an aquarium, a fossil exhibit, and a bug exhibit (in earlier games it had an observatory), but it also has an art exhibit. | |
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In the world of Gifts of Wandering Ice cave dwellers have a museum on their main island where they keep most of the "ice gifts" which vary from airplanes to dinosaur bones. | |
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Averted in the Splatoon series: Museum d'Alfonsino from the first game is strictly an art museum, and is quite focused on abstract art at that. Shellendorf Institute in Splatoon 2 is a completely separate structure in a different location and is strictly about natural history and the equipment and vehicles used to research it. They're also very different in look and feel: Museum d'Alfonsino has a modern urban look made of concrete, steel, and glass, and has a large courtyard in the center; meanwhile, Shellendorf Institute has a more traditional academic look with the building having Gothic-influenced architecture and built with warm tans and browns. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Seeds of Death", the TARDIS lands in a museum where displays about Yuri Gagarin, Leonardo DaVinci's flying machine, and a futuristic teleporter are all in the same room. On the other hand, this museum was pretty much the work of one person, who probably did have limited funding and space. Though it looks like a mishmash at first, it is explained that it is in fact a single exhibit about the history of transportation — which is what early flying machine designs, the first man in space, and a teleporter have in common that results in them being displayed together. In "Time Heist", Karabraxos' personal vault is a disorganised collection of shiny but slightly kitschy items. |
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Inverted in Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure: In this game, the Louvre, whose insides are much, much bigger than the real thing, contains numerous replicas of the same four sculptures. There is very little of anything else. | |
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Night at the Museum: The first movie avoided this, as the layout is based on the actual American Museum of Natural History. (The interiors are a replica in Vancouver, however, because they wouldn't let them shoot it in the actual museum.) It was used a bit in the sequel Battle of the Smithsonian, however, as much of it was set in the interlocking storage basement of the many museums that make up the Smithsonian. Which itself would be Rule of Cool (or convenience) as the real storage and research facilities for the Smithsonian are in Suitland, Maryland (above ground), and there are no connections, underground or otherwise, between the Mall museums. Which only makes sense, given the high water table on the Mall, the existence of the Metro system, the fact that the buildings were all built decades apart, and that one of the Mall museums isn't part of the Smithsonian at all (the National Gallery of Art is an entirely separate institution.) |
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In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit is set in the National Air & Space Museum, which is normally exclusively for aviation-related artifacts. Then again, the Museum of American History was undergoing renovation at the time, and the Air and Space Museum is very large, making it good for at least a temporary placement. And it's entirely possible that the flying wing Cap was found in had recently been added to Air & Space's collection, thus justifying an accompanying exhibit about its last pilot. | |
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The titular location in Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum. Every single exhibit's placements are completely random and without any proper categorization, save for "Tools" and "Robots". Even then, the latter crams robots of different sizes in a single floor - so you see Humongous Mecha to humanoid droids and toy-sized robots (like the Moodmaker Orchestra and Tin Soldier Squad) side-by-side. | |
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Averted partially in Grand Theft Auto IV's Libertonian. The museum's lack of space gives out a mishmash appearance, but a glance of its directory◊ shows that it clumps each of its four exhibits into dedicated segments of the building. It's also under renovation, with many artifacts in waist-high boxes. | |
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Justified in C.M.B., since the curator is a 12 years old cloudcuckoolander and the fact that his "museum" only consisted of one big room. | |
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The educational science and nature show Eyewitness was set in one that had its walls painted white. At various times, it had a small plane, a car, and skeleton of a T. rex, an ocean, and a prism. Windows, "paintings" and wall depressions featured stock footage, and the museum had live animals running around it. If the intro is to be believed, the arrangement of its walls is also very trippy. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: The angara museum on Aya. Probably justified since the building is freaking tiny (there's not a lot of real-estate on a planet that's 70% volcanoes), so old artifacts of significance are kept five feet from the Random Pile of Human Rubbish the Initiative supplies as an exhibit on their cultures. | |
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