History Main / MishmashMuseum

** You forget that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for instance, has a very extensive display of arms and armor from around the world, including King Henry VIII's armor and Charlemagne's helmet.
*** Then again, the Met also features furniture and recreations of rooms owned and used by historical figures.

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', the Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit is set in the National Air & Space Museum, which is normally exclusively for aviation related artifacts. Then again, the Museum of American History was undergoing renovation at the time, and the Air and Space Museum is very large, making it good for at least a temporary placement. And the man whom the exhibit focused on ''had'' been dug out of a unique aircraft's frozen wreckage a few years back.

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', the Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit is set in the National Air & Space Museum, which is normally exclusively for aviation related artifacts. Then again, the Museum of American History was undergoing renovation at the time, and the Air and Space Museum is very large, making it good for at least a temporary placement.

-->-- Mike J. Nelson, {{Rifftrax}} edition of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''

* Averted in ''TokyoMewMew'', where Ichigo and Masaya's first date is specifically spent in a separate wing of the museum devoted to conservation and endangered animals.
* Justified in ''{{CMB}}'', since the curator is a [[ImprobableAge 12 years old]] {{cloudcuckoolander}} and the fact that his "museum" only consisted of one big room.

* ''NightAtTheMuseum'' avoided this, as the layout is based on the actual New York Museum of Natural History. (It is a replica, however, because they wouldn't let them shoot it in the actual museum.)

* The museum in one of the first few episodes of ''FutariWaPrettyCure'' ''almost'' avoids this, as it's specifically an art museum with basically just realistic paintings on the walls and a few sculptures. They just couldn't help but throw in a few suits of armor, apparently.

* In Film/CaptainAmericatheWinterSoldier the Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit is set in the National Air & Space Museum, which is normally exclusively for aviation related artifacts.

-->"Thus ends the Greek artifact/dinosaur/big freakin' diamond exhibit."

* Averted partially in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s Libertonian. The museum's lack of space gives out a mishmash appearance, but a glance of its [[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/File:LibertonianMuseum-GTAIV-directories.png directory]] shows that it clumps each of its four exhibits into dedicated segments of the building. It's also under renovation, with many exhibits in [[TakeCover waist-high boxes]].

* Averted partially in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s Libertonian. The museum's lack of space gives out a mishmash appearance, but a glance of its [[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/images/LibertonianMuseum-GTA4-directories.png directory]] shows that it clumps each of its four exhibits into dedicated segments of the building.

* The educational science and nature show Main/{{Eyewitness}} was set in one that had its [[WhiteVoidRoom walls painted white]]. In various times, it had a small plane, a car, and skeleton of a ''T. rex'', an ocean, and a prism. Windows, "paintings" and wall depressions featured stock footage, and the museum had live animals running around it. If the intro is to be believed, the arrangement of its walls is also very trippy.

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* [[TheBBC Radio 4's]] The Museum of Curiosity allows guests, often comedians, scientists or writers, to "donate" exhibits to the eponymous museum. Exhibits donated thus far include: the pineapple, the P-51 Mustang, a book containing every joke ever told and the Holy grail. Oh, and God, the Big Bang, the concept of privacy and Spider-Man.

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' audio drama ''Hornets' Nest: The Dead Shoes'', the Cromer [[MuseumOfTheStrange Palace of Curios]] is like this:

* As mentioned above the Gotham Museum of Art features exhibits on dinosaurs, diamonds and greek vases all in the same room in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''.

Note that this trope can have a [[TruthInTelevision little basis in reality]]: the very first museums were created to display whatever odd objects that their patrons owned, so they placed different objects together because they were from the same owner. They were often called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities "cabinets of curiosities"]], and their intent was often to show the diversity and oddity of the whole world. There are also still small museums who embrace the mishmash, because they don't have enough space or they don't know better.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Seeds of Death", the Tardis lands in a museum where displays about YuriGagarin, Leonardo [=DaVinci=]'s flying machine, and a futuristic teleporter are all in the same room. On the other hand, this museum was pretty much the work of one person, who probably did have limited funding and space.
** Though it looks like a mishmash at first, it is [[JustifiedTrope explained]] that it is in fact a single exhibit about the history of transportation - which is what early flying machine designs, the first man in space, and a teleporter have in common that results in them being displayed together.

-->- Mike J. Nelson, {{Rifftrax}} edition of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''

* Semi-averted and justified in Umberto Eco's ''Foucault's Pendulum''. The opening museum has all kinds of weird stuff in it, including the device of the title, but it is divided into categories. That these categories are rather arbitrary is, of course, thematic. (The periscope is the glassware section and not the optical instruments section, but ''surely'' there's some arcane reason for it...)

* Averted in Film/{{Ghostbusters}}: The Game, as the Aztec, Egyptian, and Civil War exhibits are kept separate.

* The Redpath museum in Montreal is home to several stuffed animals, fully articulated skeletons of ''Gorgosaurus'' and ''Dromaeosaurus'', an Egyptian mummy, a seashell collection, a mineral collection, some trilobite fossils, a samurai suit of armour, a fossil of an aquatic lizard, Chinese shoes made for bound feet, charts showing the dinosaur family tree and the phylogenetic tree of all life on Earth, an anaconda skeleton, a ''Triceratops'' skull, a banner made out of human teeth, skeletons of two whales, a sea lion and a turtle and a giant origami pterosaur, all in about two and a half floors of space. In other words, it looks ''exactly'', inside and out, like every natural history museum stereotype ever. It's CrazyAwesome.[[hottip:*:Oh, and it's appeared in ''Series/DinosaursDecoded''.]]

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* Averted in Film/{{Ghostbusters}}: The Game, as the Aztec, Egyptian, and Civil War exhibits are kept separate.
* Averted partially in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s Libertonian. The museum's lack of space gives out a mishmash appearance, but a glance of its [[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/images/LibertonianMuseum-GTA4-directories.png directory]] shows that it clumps each of its four exhibits into dedicated segments of the building.
* While the [[AllTheWorldsAreAStage Treacherous Mansion]] of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' generally has its museum exhibits delineated in ways that make sense, the 1st floor northwest room based on the [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Secret Mine]] has an igloo and a woolly mammoth together apparently only because they're both associated with ice. Justified in-universe: according to Professor E. Gadd, the guy who built the place was rather kooky.

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* ''Ripley's Odditorium'' located on Hollywood Boulevard of RipleysBelieveItOrNot fame.