History Main / ChekhovsExhibit

* In ''AgainstADarkBackground'' the Crownstar Addendum is the most valuable piece of jewelry in the solar system. It's kept in a glass case... in a heavily-secured vault guarded by the entire military force of a city-state. [[spoiler: And in a further subversion, the thing in the glass case isn't actually the real Crownstar Addendum: [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy the genuine article is kept hidden behind a random metal panel wrapped in oily rags.]]]]

* In ''AgainstADarkBackground'' the Crownstar Addendum is the most valuable piece of jewelry in the solar system. In an aversion of this trope, it's kept in a glass case... in a heavily-secured vault guarded by the entire military force of a city-state. [[spoiler: And in a further subversion, the thing in the glass case isn't actually the real Crownstar Addendum: [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy the genuine article is kept hidden behind a random metal panel wrapped in oily rags.]]]]

* Literature/{{Dresden Files}}: the [[spoiler: dinosaur skeleton]] in the museum in Dead Beat becomes important later. [[spoiler: Awesome ZOMBIE DINOSAUR!]]

* In ''UltimaIX'' the Avatar Museum held dozens of past games' {{MacGuffin}}s under glass, and seemed the obvious repository for puzzle-solving implements to be taken by the player or seized as weapons by the BigBad. Inverted and subverted; the heist already took place before the player arrived at the scene, and none of the rest of the exhibit becomes relevant again.
** In ''{{Ultima}} VII'', all eight of the original moonstones are sitting unsecured in a museum in Britain, waiting for the Avatar to take them.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "Inca Mummy Girl". The beginning of the ep shows the mummy in its coffin in the museum exhibit, and she revives when the seal is broken. Later, it's that seal that Giles and co have to reassemble to stop her mummifying people.

* On the season one finale of {{Leverage}}, this is [[spoiler:subverted as they steal the rest of the art surrounded the Two Davids exhibit and leave that exhibit alone. Their motive was to cause the CEO of the insurance company to be fired and the rest of the art in the exhibit was insured by his company as opposed to the Two Davids exhibit which he owned personally.]]

* The [=DaVinci=] Journals in ''Hudson Hawk''.

* In ''Against a Dark Background'' the Crownstar Addendum is the most valuable piece of jewelry in the solar system. In an aversion of this trope, it's kept in a glass case... in a heavily-secured vault guarded by the entire military force of a city-state. [[spoiler: And in a further subversion, the thing in the glass case isn't actually the real Crownstar Addendum: [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy the genuine article is kept hidden behind a random metal panel wrapped in oily rags.]]]]

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' 'Inca Mummy Girl'. The beginning of the ep shows the mummy in its coffin in the museum exhibit, and she revives when the seal is broken. Later, it's that seal that Giles and co have to reassemble to stop her mummifying people.

* The Etoile de Joie diamond in ''HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo'' is on display in a museum.

* [[LivingMacguffin A boy called Kevin]] in MatthewReilly's ''Area 7''. He's in a carefully monitored glass case, that is in the military's version of out in the open - that is in a very open position in a secret underground labratory. The President goes on a tour of said labratory, including the case, at the start of the book. That boy is not going to stay in his case for long.

* {{Dresden Files}}: the [[spoiler: dinosaur skeleton]] in the museum in Dead Beat becomes important later. [[spoiler: Awesome ZOMBIE DINOSAUR!]]

* The seemingly useless stone in the museum in ''PokemonBlackAndWhite''. It is actually [[spoiler: a legendary Pokémon, which you [[GottaCatchThemAll must catch to advance the plot]].]]

* The Anubis head and Jewels of Anubis in the very PowerpuffGirls episode

* {{Dresden Files}}: the [[spoiler: dinosaur skeleton]] in the museum in Dead Beat becomes important later. [[spoiler: [[Awsome ZOMBIE DINOSAUR]]]]

* The Expel Mirror in ''ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' is introduced as the centerpiece of a museum exhibit. It turns out later that you need the mirror in order to fight a boss; however, the only obstacle to the protagonists finding it is that ''going to the museum in the first place is entirely optional, so many players will have no idea where to look for it.''

* ''[[GetSmart Get Smart]]'' has the shoe-phone and the car, although the car is a subversion.

* {{Ghostbusters}} 2: A painting of the tyrant Vigo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art sets off the chain reaction that fuels the plot.

* {{Dresden Files}}: the [[spoiler: dinosaur skeleton]] in the museum in Dead Beat becomes important later. [[spoiler: [[Awsome ZOMBIE DINOSAUR]]]]

* The golems on the exhibit grounds in ''WildArms1''. Inverted that [[spoiler: you're going to fight them later in the game.]]

* ''{{Sherlock}}'', "The Great Game": When Watson sees the news report about the Baker Street explosion, there's also a news item about the new Vermeer painting at the museum. It doesn't get stolen, but it does turn out to be important.

* The Panarch's museum in the second WheelOfTime book contains a few ancient magical artifacts along with mammoth bones and other random junk. One of the magical artifacts happens to be [[spoiler:one of seven seals binding the [[BigBad Dark One's]] prison closed]].

* In ''{{Ultima}} IX'' the Avatar Museum held dozens of past games' {{MacGuffin}}s under glass, and seemed the obvious repository for puzzle-solving implements to be taken by the player or seized as weapons by the BigBad. Inverted and subverted; the heist already took place before the player arrived at the scene, and none of the rest of the exhibit becomes relevant again.

* In the film ''ThePhantom'' one of the Skulls of Touganda that the bad guys (and the good guys, for that matter) need can be found at a museum exhibit. One that both the bad guys and good guys happen to visit at the same time.

* The ''{{Highlander}}'' episode ''The Lady And The Tiger'' featured a McGuffin under glass that the immortal cat burglar Amanda Devereaux wanted to steal before her former-partner-turned nemesis Zachary Blaine (played by Jason Isaacs, very early in his career) got to them.
* Another episode of ''{{Highlander}}'' saw [=MacLeod=] asking for Amanda's assistance in retrieving the Cross of Saint Antoine from the house of the Evil Immortal of the Week. The EIOTW kept the cross in a big glass case in his foyer.

* GhostbustersTheVideoGame An exhibit at the Natural History museum regarding Gozer worship triggers a shockwave that re-awakens all ''kinds'' of booby traps and leftover followers Ivo Shandor left behind/

* ''{{Moonraker}}'' featured an entire ''museum'' full of glass artifacts. Not thirty minutes later, we get to see every last bit of it trashed when Bond fights TheDragon, a Kendo champion who insists on going after him with a shinai. Bond manages to repel him with a glass-handled sword that was shown earlier.

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