[CLOSED] Blast From the Past: Study Historical Display not appearing

I think many might have the issue of not just waiting long enough. The task doesn't complete instantly once you click "view", you have to wait until the action is done i.e. until the sim stops doing it. It takes a short while.
Edit: but yes, it doesn't actually say "study historical displays" but instead "view" with Emits icon on it.

This worked for me too! 🙂

I  was still having this problem and just tried viewing different objects in the museum in Willow Creek. I let the action complete and then it worked. I think I expected the action to satisfy the thing after a few seconds of viewing but once I just let the action run its course naturally, it worked. 

This worked for me.

i accidentally made it by looking at a cc object at home

Also I have mods installed and it worked, eventually. 

I clicked on almost everything in the museum as View and one thing finally worked. Just click everything. Eventually something will work. 

I was having the same issue. I currently have a few mods installed, but I first went to the Willow Creek museum & tried to view a couple things with no luck. Then I traveled to the Oasis Springs museum after finding this thread and decided to just click View on the middle bust when you first walk in, I stared at it for maybe like an hour or two in-game. It didn't seem to be working, but I opened build mode and immediately got the pop-up that it was fulfilled. 

Having the same problem even after viewing for hours my sims can only view and not study. I even try started a new save without my mods and nothing worked. 

I clicked on an item from outside the museum (Oasis Springs) and it had a special icon and said view and that worked.  I wonder if there is a glitch where you don't get the correct option if your sim is inside the museum?  Weird.