How To Earn More Money From The Gift Stop In Two Point Museum

One of the first things you’ll want to add to your museum in Two Point Museum is a gift shop. It’s a great source of income no matter what stage of progression you’re at, especially on the more difficult campaign stages, and your guests will love it too.

Sure, you can just plop down the bare minimum and put a single Assistant in, and you’ll make a bit of money, but you’ll quickly find guests clamoring for more to buy and more room to shop. If you don’t, you’re missing out on income and a higher museum rating. Here’s how to turn your Gift Shop from grim and bare to glamorous and well-stocked.

Gift Shops, Explained

The Gift Shop is one of the first types of rooms you’ll need to have in any museum, as it provides a sizable and consistent amount of income, especially early on in a location, before you’re getting tons of guests and donations, and it helps increase your museum’s overall rating and guest happiness.

This room type allows your guests to come in and purchase one of six different types of merchandise for a price you set: Trinkets, Plushes, Posters, Onesies, Books, or Toys.

Each merchandise type comes from its own item, and you can pick which theme you want them to be from the same six themes you find Exhibits from.

Gift Shops are only staffed by Assistants​​​​​, and each one at minimum needs to have one entrance, one Checkout Counter, and one Trinket Stand, but that isn’t the only thing you’ll want to have in one.

• It needs to be at a minimum size of four-by-three tiles.
• It will always cost at least 7,500 cash to create, which includes the room’s construction, and the three base items.
• Guests are unlikely to litter or make messes in a Gift Shop, but you can be deducted points for not having a Trash Bin inside.

Customer Service, Guest Happiness, and Aerodynamics are the three best skills an Assistant working in a Gift Shop can have, as all of them provide helpful benefits when checking out guests or restocking merchandise.

You’ll want to fill your Gift Shop with multiple types of merchandise so you can appeal to as many guests as possible, and make sure that merchandise matches the theme of the Exhibits you’re showcasing.

How To Improve A Gift Shop

There are several ways to improve your Gift Shop in general and profit-wise, and most of them relate to changing what your Gift Shop sells and the size of it, though other things play a part, like Decorations.

You can also customize the flooring and walls of each Gift Shop by selecting the Room Customization button on the individual shop’s information menu.

Just like every other room, the Gift Shop has a Room Rating with a maximum of five, and you can improve it by adding in additional merchandise, as well as stocking it with Trash Bins and making sure there are different Decorations placed inside, such as themed ones.

Increasing Room Capacity

One of the easiest things to do for your Gift Shop is increase the Room Capacity. The smaller the shop is, the fewer customers that can fit in it and be served, but you can remedy this by selecting Edit Room from the information menu and expanding the space available inside.

You can see a room’s max capacity by checking the Room Capacity number on the room’s information menu, and if the room is currently too full, you’ll get a red symbol with exclamation points above it.

Every two tiles you add to the room adds one more capacity, and while there’s no limit to how big you can make it, the sweet spot for a large museum is having between 16 and 25 Room Capacity.

Having this large room allows more guests inside, and allows you to assign more Assistants to the room, though each one will need their own Checkout Counter if they’re going to sell items to guests.

The Room Capacity number strictly refers to the number of guests the room can hold. Assistants don’t count towards this number, and the only way to have more of them is by adding more Checkout Counters.

You can still assign Assistants to a Gift Shop without them having a Checkout Counter though, and they’ll focus on restocking the merchandise stands instead, which can still be helpful, especially if your shop is busy.

Adjusting The Merchandise Selection

Another way to improve your Gift Shop is changing what merchandise you have available, and theme that merchandise is.

Almost every guest will buy something, but they all have at least one merchandise type they prefer, such as Professors overwhelmingly preferring Bookcases and Poster Stands to the other types of items.

You can check what merchandise a guest type prefers by going to the Guests tab of Sticker Book and checking that type’s information profile.

Since each museum in the Campaign has a general theme you’ll be following, you can maximize your Gift Shop’s profits by figuring out what type of guests your museum attracts most, and stocking the shop with the merchandise they prefer.

How To Create A Multi-Theme Gift Shop

Depending on factors like the Campaign level you’re at, the size of your museum, and the number of themes you have in your museum, you won’t want to only have one theme of merchandise available in your Gift Shop.

For example, if you have both Prehistory and Marine Exhibits, only having one theme of merchandise will hurt your profits, because you won’t be appealing to the variety of guests you’ll be seeing.

As soon as you have at least two Exhibit themes, expand your Gift Shop if possible and check to see what type of guests you’re primarily attracting based on those themes. Then, go to the Sticker Book and check the Guests tab to see what merchandise they prefer, and start adjusting your Gift Shop accordingly.

If you’re putting specific themes in specific plots, you can also have multiple Gift Shops, each with their own theme and Assistants handling them instead of one massive shop for everything.

For example, if you have Botany and Science Exhibits together, which is mandatory on Bungle Wasteland’s campaign level, at least temporarily, you’ll be getting a lot of Science Enthusiasts, Professors, and Botany Enthusiasts as guests.

They’ll prefer Bookcases, Toy Stands, and Poster Stands across all three of them, so you can focus on having one Toy Stand, and then several Bookcases and Poster Stands, and make sure there’s one for each theme.

There isn’t a limit to how many merchandise stands you can put in a room, only what can fit, as each one needs a minimum amount of space that includes the stand itself and room for guests to approach it, so you could even make a room large enough to include every guest’s preferred type if you wanted.