Two Point Museum is the latest entry into the Two Point franchise and brings its humorous, laid-back gameplay to a different institutional set up this time around. As a museum curator, your job will be to assemble the most impressive collection of artifacts possible, all while attracting and entertaining new guests, tending to staff needs, and completing various challenges along the way.
There are certainly a lot of things to do in order to stay on top in a management sim like Two Point Museum, but one factor you might not have bargained for is the theft of your museum exhibitions. That’s right, not every guest will visit your museum with the best of intentions, and some may look to steal or outright destroy your hard-won items. Fortunately, the game provides a solution in the form of its various security measures. Here’s everything players should know.
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How To Recruit & Train Security Guards
Thieves will only begin to enter your museum when it has achieved a star rating. By this time, you should already have at least one Security Guard employed in order to collect donations. Much like other crew members such as Experts and Assistants, Security can be recruited via the Hire Staff tab underneath the security badge symbol. There are many skills that make up a good Security guard, but Aerodynamics and Strolling Surveillance are good ones to look for in new recruits.
Once hired, Security Guards will patrol the museum floor and collect donations from donation stands. This means that they will naturally patrol the museum and should automatically stop any thieves they come across. However, if you spot a criminal and no Security Guard is near them, you can always pick up your Security Guards manually and place them in front of the criminals.
If a criminal has successfully stolen an item, it will be returned once they have been captured. However, if they have destroyed it, you will need to reacquire the exhibit.
How To Use Security Rooms & Cameras
In addition to patrolling Security Guards, you can also set up designated Security Chairs which will watch over a specified area. As you get more advanced, you will unlock access to the Camera Room in the Rooms tab. To operate a Camera Room, your Guards will need to be trained in the Camera Room skill via a Training Library. Once their training is complete, Guards can be stationed inside the Camera Room and monitor activity from there.
Keep in mind that you will need to place cameras around the museum via the general Items tab rather than the Camera Room tab. Cameras will rotate and cover an arc of 180 degrees, so it doesn’t usually take more than a couple of cameras to cover a large surface area. Guests will not take kindly to being watched all the time, however, and too many security cameras may lead to a negative Environment effect. It is also important to remember that cameras will only deter criminals from stealing, and will only be active when a security guard with the appropriate training is present in the Camera Room.
The County Archives Curator Challenge is a great way to familiarize yourself with the way cameras and Security Chairs work. Completing it will also reward you with additional security items such as Security Supplies and the Security Camera Post.
Having a high-security museum with upgraded Camera Rooms and good coverage across key exhibits will also increase the likelihood of a positive inspection result from the Department of Culture. Successful inspections will award you additional grant money, so it is worth fulfilling all the necessary requirements before the inspector arrives.
How To Spot & Catch Thieves
Some thieves are easier to spot than others, but in a busy museum, it can be difficult to see everything that’s going on. If a criminal wanders within view of a camera, a notification will show up, allowing you to go directly to the criminal in question. Security Guards will often directly confront criminals whenever they come across them, but can often be outrun unless they have the Aerodynamics skill. In some cases, Guards may be preoccupied or simply unaware that the criminal is present, in which case it helps to manually pick up and move them directly within range of the criminal.
When the museum is targeted, a small notification will appear on the right-hand side of the screen. It is always a good idea to bulk up security and ensure that as many Guards are available as possible during these events.
Criminals belong to a variety of criminal guilds with different uniforms and tactics. The Golden Molers, for instance, will burrow up through the ground and can therefore strike from just about any place in the museum, while Boggymen will infiltrate via bathrooms. If a criminal is successfully apprehended, they will be escorted back to the map entrance. It can help to use the pickup tool if you are under a sustained barrage of organized criminals, since the guard will otherwise take a long time to get back to the museum premises.
With these tactics and technologies, no criminals, thieves or vandals should cause your museum any issues whatsoever. You might even receive a bonus grant from the Security Inspector to help boost your star rating.
Simulation
Strategy
Life Simulation
City Builder
- Released
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March 4, 2025
- ESRB
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Everyone // Mild Fantasy Violence, Comic Mischief
- Developer(s)
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Two Point Studios