Does anyone actually visit the museums?

I only ever had my homeless sim go there to learn how to paint or just sleep on a sofa and hit up the cafe in it for the most part. Gives me more of a reason for my sim to visit if they wanna learn to paint since they don't own a easel and being a freegan definitely don't wanna be spending money. Thus, just gonna mooch off that free places for things.

Think I use libraries a lot more for skill building and with University installed definitely more of a reason for my sim to go, when unable to afford a computer and go type up a term paper there and work on her presentation. Or some study groups might meet up there.

The only time I ever visit them is to bulldoze them

I usually bulldoze to replace with a cafe, restaurant, spa, or something more interesting. I replaced one with a movie theater. The only one that I've ever used is in Selvadorada because there's a computer there. I used it to order the cure for being poisoned.

I think I need to rethink my use of Museums, Art Galleries, and Libraries.
I deleted my Museum because I needed the lot for something else and I had the Art Gallery as a cultural alternative.
I read the description for the Museum community lot and it reads like how I am using my Art Gallery. I happen to be playing my Snobby, Art Loving sim at the time, whose family has also amassed a lot Selvadoradian artifacts, but she has no archeology skills herself.

So I added some Selvadorada objects to the Art Galley.


She is also a style influencer, so she can look at art and get inspiration for being a fashion stylist.


It seems her best bet for building that archeology skill for now is a book.
I do like this as an alternative setting to the library. She fits in better here.


I also put in some research computers to make this lot more flexible.


My art gallery is set up with a room for Get Together Art Clubs.
My sims aren't ready for it yet, as one of them is still a child. But they will form one when he is a young adult.
I will furnish it at that time.


The Sims 4 worlds are too small to have the same community lots in each world.
So San Myshuno will have the only art Galley. Windenburgh has the Library that used to be in Brightchester. My College Prep/Boarding school has taken the lot where the library used to be. I'll think about locating a Museum in one of the other worlds.

I've been meaning to renovate them to make them more interesting. My Brindleton Bay is filled with occult sims, so I was thinking of changing Deadrass Museum to a magical culture museum. If only Realm of Magic came with more magic-y Build/Buy. Here's hoping we get Happy Haunts, otherwise I'll have to use mods.

I did have an idea to force myself to use them, though: Field Trips. Book a day off from school by making a Field Trip holiday, then have child and teen sims spend the day at a museum. The problem is that I'll have to redo each museum with foot stands, food courts and other stuff to give them more substance.

I like having my Sims visit the museums, but museums are one of my favorite things in real life.

Museums are one of those places where clubs really come into play. Get a club with 5+ sims, set the club with View Art, GIve Speeches, Paint, Use Science objects, etc and then make an interesting museum for them to visit and it becomes pretty lively.

Kerrigan's first house became a museum after she went famous. She had several collections, some Sixam objects, the Mother's tendril, and all kinds of science stuff. I also put her autographed photos on several walls which draw a lot of attention. I think the biggest thing is just making sure it's a place sims can hang out comfortably. Bathrooms of course, some sort of food, Coffee, and activities they can do together. At Kerrigan's house I used the rope dividers in most of the house but left the kitchen and bathroom open for visitors.

I've been meaning to build a massive art/science/history museum housing all the collectibles, donated by my Sims.

We have museums? :D I bulldozed them and put other venues in their places. The one in Brindleton Bay I replaced with a gallery lot by Lilsimsie, I think, which she designed as a bed and breakfast. Now that we can have rental lots in any world, it really is a bed and breakfast. I was pretty chuffed about that.

Yeah I specifically mostly just use it for an artistic club and some quiet dates. Museums are great date spots! Though it also struck me as a place Snob sims would like to go so sometimes I pull those guys over.

I still kinda like how each of the Museums that come with the game have their own theme. Willow Creek's is more classic art, while Oasis Springs is modern. Brindleton Bay lines out the local history (which you mostly only get in Build/Buy) and Del Sol Valley's focusing on film iconography.