Summary
- Alphabetical or chronological layout, there’s no wrong way to organize museum.
- Focus on fun and personal flair in museum design, not just aesthetics.
- Consider value of items, area found, color, object type for organizing museum.
When you’re confronted with putting together your museum in Stardew Valley, you make the choice to put a lot of thought into your organization. You want it to look neat – you want it to be fun. Or maybe you really don’t care what it looks like and you’re just here for the rewards and never plan to step foot into the library ever again.
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Whatever the case, there’s no wrong way to pick what the best museum layout is in Stardew Valley. All that matters is that you have fun putting your museum together and that you do Gunther’s job for him.
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Organized By Alphabetical Order
It’s Weird, But It’s Fun
If you’re going to organize your museum by alphabetical order, you better expect to do a lot of arranging. Although, aesthetically, it might look a little odd, the real fun of this organizational scheme comes from the knowledge of what you have done.
It might look off if you have someone visiting your farm, but if they walk through the museum they will quickly come to see your genius. What better way to locate specific objects than by alphabetizing them for quick and easy access? Of course, you can’t take said objects back once they’re in the museum, but at least you can find them quickly to look at them.
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Organized By Order Picked Up
Proper Sorting Is Gunther’s Job
It’s time for Gunther to get off his lazy butt and get out from behind the counter to put in some work. You’re out there finding all of these minerals and all of these artifacts while he’s doing absolutely nothing – it’s not fair in the slightest. As such, one of the best organizational schemes you can opt for is just placing things down as you get them.
It might not seem like there’s a rhyme or reason (at first) but the more you look, the more you can see your journey. You can see how you’ve ventured throughout the world and what came to you first, as well as what you might have struggled to get your hands on. This organizational scheme is one of growth, and for that, it’s one of the best museum layouts.
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Organized By Value
The More Expensive, The Better The Spot
Organizing by value gives you a little bit of personal flair (and could work best if you’re going for a Joja route, given its heavy emphasis on making money and buying things from the Joja catalog). Of course, it’s not like you’re going to sell your entire museum collection off (but you could for some quick and easy cash). Instead, you’re just putting your most expensive and interesting items at the front, where everyone can observe and be jealous of your theoretical wealth.
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If you happen to get doubles of some objects, you can go ahead and sell them to discern what the value is of said mineral or artifact. If you don’t want to do that because you didn’t get a double, and you’re worried about the low drop rate, you can, instead, just look at the Stardew Valley Wiki.
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Organized By Area Found
Mountain Finds Go With Mountain Finds
If you want your museum to reflect the geography of Stardew Valley more clearly, then organizing by area is an interesting way to organize your museum. Rather than putting out your minerals and artifacts all willy-nilly, group them together by where you found them.
It might get a bit more difficult when you put down items broken down by geodes, but the chances that you found those geodes while mining are pretty high. This is a bit of a difficult one to nail and remember, so you might want to make a small note to yourself about the organizational scheme.
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Organized By Color
So Aesthetically Appealing
Organizing by color is one of the easier museum layouts to go for, and there’s a reason for it – it’s really easy to do and only takes a tiny bit of rearranging as you go. By putting objects together with ROY G BIV in mind, you can make a really aesthetically appealing museum. Sure, realistically, it wouldn’t make any sense, but who cares? All that means is that it turns out to be really easy on the eyes.
Of course, there are a few items, like the Ancient Doll or the Prismatic Shard, that may make picking out specific spots a bit more difficult, but it’s not impossible – just make some executive decisions. It’s not like Gunther is going to protest, and when Penny holds school in the library, she can teach the kids the colors of the rainbow while also teaching them history.
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Organized By Object
Makes The Most Sense For A Real Museum
If you want a museum that not only looks aesthetically appealing but makes a lot of sense when you’re venturing through it, you should opt to organize your museum by object. Keep artifacts with like artifacts, make sure you keep the bones together and even break up the gems and geodes into specific types so they all have a group.
It gets a little tricky once you start to consider the forageables, like the Earth Crystal, Quartz, Fire Quartz, and Frozen tear, given that they’re still technically minerals and gems, but they don’t require you to crack open any geodes or Artifact Troves.
This one might require a bit of careful placement and planning, but it’s really worth it if you manage to get everything together just right. This one does take some time to do and, realistically, is quite a feat. If you’re up for a challenge in Stardew Valley, try to break down the items in the museum into different categories and organize them by said categories to make a ‘realistic’ museum.
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