Does anyone actually visit the museums?

Nah. They just end up being torn down for something my sims will actually visit.

I use to, one in Dogs and Cats world is pretty nice. But now I mainly go to have my klepto sim get a new decor for their house and make some money maybe.

I've had a couple clubs that meet at museums but socializing was the primary goal. My one sim had a club with her child-aged grandchildren that met at art centers and a club with her teenage grandchildren that met at museums. She was trying to get them some culture. But mostly I used them to keep the cousins in touch.

I rarely let my sims travel anywhere in Sims 4 because I hate the loading screens however I had an idea to keep a record of my families in my save in a museum or art gallery. I can't build for peanuts so I downloaded a lovely building from the gallery and converted it to my liking. It has several floors with skill objects such as painting easels, chess tables, and a piano and other musical instruments for the sims to play with. They love the easels and I move the completed paintings off and onto the walls for display. Most are pretty bad but they don't care.

I kept one floor simply for the photos of my sims and it is not accessible by sims. I am always afraid of the kleptomaniacs. This is a pic of what it looks like. Sorry, not the best photo but it was intended just for my records.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ACtC-3f5lPdUiFa7ozbg_yPpfbrbC-_EZpoXIFUh7JNH8EuMzHMyVArcnizzlVVz4rF67qpaXrAx8HDuU_f-Syv1eOzPdZvLzmuvEayY5Yd2n4zMBNbXYfuSBZHwqxP3RRHq7RPKOyCVxs-ea84g38_RqmIFdQ=w2090-h1182-no?authuser=0

The colour coding on the frames is intended. Each family has their own colour and their son or daughter inherits it. Yeah, I know. It's weird.

I am not playing Sims 4 at the moment. I am fully immersed in Sims 3. However, I will go back one day and maybe this will be my dynasty complete with a photographic record of the hundreds of families who once existed. That is unlikely of course as I have the attention span of a gnat, but I always have grand plans.

No, I've deleted mine and put other more useful to me type lots because the worlds are so small I need all the lots I can get.

"JestTru;c-17765949" wrote:
I sent my sim in my last play all the time. She was an archeologist. I rebuilt the museum in the world that cane with Get Famous (sorry its name escapes me at the moment). She would throw her fund raising parties there and I had her work there on her archeological finds and things sent into her to do.

I also demolished the museum in Willow Creek and replaced it with my Creekside Museum build. I have that place set up as an all in one hobby haven along with a wedding venue.

That sounds like a useful way to play in them to be honest, thanks for that idea!

Never.

"Onverser;c-17766077" wrote:
The only time I ever visit them is to bulldoze them

Yeah I removed them all as well haha.

"CK213;c-17766080" wrote:
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.

Your screenshots always motivate me to do something like that! Looks amazing.

Not unless I'm playing a sim that has a specific need to visit a museum. I find them boring to visit with sims. They just stand there staring at art and it's really not all that exciting to watch.