What Exactly is the Purpose of the Museum Lot?

I usually only use them when I am playing a thief!

I always thought museums were there to store and display your collections. When I used to play painter sims, if they ever pained some Masterpiece, it would go in a museum for display.

I like having my Sims go on outings to the museum as a social event.

Usually, I use museums also as fancy party and wedding places.

The one in Willow Creek is a popular wedding venue in my game. I made some edits so that it is set up for repeat weddings. There's a piano and bar. There's a chocolate fountain. I have an area on the upper balcony with a wedding arch, benches and flower petals. Bring your own cake and keep the bride and groom on separate floors until the ceremony. I think I added a grill or it was already there with tables in the garden for food. It's not a restaurant, it's specifically for parties.

I use the one in San Myshuno as an actual art gallery with the bar attached. My city sims do go there to get out of the house especially if they are creative types.

I almost never use the one in Oasis Springs so I need to think about that. I've only played with Del Sol Valley a few times. I didn't think about sending my other sims there to tour the museum like tourists but it's a good idea.

I'm keeping the one in Selvadorada as-is. I've visited it a lot at this point but it seems like a realistic place to go on vacation. I often send sims there at least once when they arrive in Selvadorada. They do not go jungle-trekking without first going to the museum.

It's true that more could be done with these. They suggested the ability to have gallery parties and I would like these. Maybe we could get art auctions. We do have flea markets. It's true though that it would be good to have an event that ties into the use of the museums.

I'm adding that I do have several churches but they are downloads that I put on empty lots. I have one small historic chapel on the Windenburg Island for Catholics and old mainline protestants. There's this modern "free" protestant church in Oasis Springs that has a bar and party area. There's also a church in StrangerVille that is like a pioneer style church. I have several clubs that are associated with these churches so they actually seem like they have services and socializing. The "free" church in Oasis Springs is a happening place.

There are other religions in my game but not venues for them, I would add a few other different ones. As we get more worlds and lots, maybe. I do say that certain households are associated with certain churches.

The Villareals, some other households in my game, etc, are Catholic. StrangerVille people go to the church in StrangerVille. The Oasis Springs one has a following but mostly from Oasis Springs with a few others.

I keep the one in Willow Creek because it's set up the best. I've replaced most of the base game paintings with ones from packs, and added doors to go outside to the decks where I have a bunch of easels set up. (I agree it's a pain to go into B/B to clear the easels.) Since I usually have several Sims that go for the Painter aspiration (the reward not just lets your Sim paint emotional paintings regardless of mood, they can also write the emotional books so I have my intended writers complete it, usually when they're in their teens) a museum is a necessity for my game play.

I always delete the museums as I never use them. I keep the one in Brindleton Bay since it is off on it's own island and kind of out of the way. I usually convert the museum in Willow Creek to a wedding venue and the one in Oasis Springs usually becomes a public pool lot.

I built a Norman style castle in windenburg which I’ve made a museum very much like uk and European castles where you visit and see the rooms and chambers as they were. I send my sims there for a day out to look around or paint from the top of the towers. It also has the ghost lot trait so for sims who visit at night get spooked.

I've been planning to modify the one in Oasis springs to be an Air and Space/Science museum, with an observatory, that oversized microscope and maybe a rocket - as well as digging some Sixam items out of Debug.

I like museums in real life but yeah, the ones in the Sims don't have a lot of use as is. (though I have used the one in Brindtleton Bay for a date or two because it seemed right.)

I dont ever really visit them during gameplay, but I have built a couple for my sims to store their collections. I play legacy, but I change houses for each generation, so it's really hard to keep all the items that generations have collected over the years. So I build a museum and put different collections in different rooms so my collections and family pictures are all preserved (really good for looking back at photos of sims from previous generations).

They can be good if you put a bar in it, for a posh date/proposal venue, and if you put some activity tables in there too then it can be a place to go and work on practical skills. I have an archeology bench in my Salvadorada room, an easel in my paintings room, microscope in my science room, observatory on the roof next to my space room... Oh and some tents so my sims can camp 'Night at the Museum' stylie ;)