History Main / WizardWorkshop

* ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Majorina has one in the Bad End Kingdom, including a cauldron and some potions.

Compare the MadScientistLaboratory, this trope's pulp and science fiction counterpart. Might be down the hall from a MagicalLibrary.

* ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' (2003): Deconstructed. The djinni Bartimaeus notes that the presence of stereotypical "wizardly" paraphernalia is a good indication that a mage is a second-rate poser trying to hide his incompetence behind spooky knickknacks that impress the hoi polloi but don't have any practical use, whereas the truly powerful magicians favor a sleek, modern look.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', Dr. Facilier has a voodoo emporium where he does tarot readings, possess mystical objects he states he hasn't even tried, and contacts his "Friends" on the Other Side.

* ''Literature/TressOfTheEmeraldSea'': Tress inherits a workshop after agreeing to become the sprouter for the ''Crow's Song''. The room includes a bed, a small bath, and a worktable, as well as a series of drawers built into the wall that contain the spores that she uses for sprouting. What it doesn't include is any silver in the floorboards, meaning that she has to be careful with the spores because if any of them fall to the floor, and if she happens to spill any water on them, she has no way of immediately killing whatever sprouts from them.[[/folder]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series occasionally features these as stages, whether it be in Dracula's Castle or the castles of someone Dracula-adjacent. The Alchemy Lab from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' is probably the most well known example.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', the majority of the [[TheClan Great House]] Telvanni councilors have one in their magically grown [[FungusHumongous mushroom]] {{Mage Tower}}s. Included are alchemical equipment, soul gems, and, since the Telvanni care little for Imperial laws against the subject, human remains for {{Necromancy}}. Master Aryon's includes his notes translating the famous necromancy in-game book "N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis!", as well. Should you choose to join House Telvanni, you get to build (or "grow", as the case may be) your own stronghold in their style include an area clearly designed as a mage's study with tables, alchemical equipment and ingredients, and soul gems.
** The ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' DLC "Wizard's Tower" naturally inserts one of these into the game for the player's use, known as Frostcrag Spire. It includes a garden full of alchemical ingredients, teleportation to any Mages Guild hall, Enchanting and Spellmaking altars, and an altar to summon an Atronach follower. Everything an aspiring wizard could need.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': The Soul Sanctum, a secluded area high in the spires of the City of Tears where scholarly bugs performed arcane experiments in the nature of the soul, is a complex of opulent rooms filled with bookshelves and vessels full of soul energy.

->There were tables strewn with archaic instruments of doubtful use, with astrological charts, with skulls and alembics and crystals, with censers such as are used in the Catholic Church, and volumes bound in worm-eaten leather with verdigris-mottled clasps. In one corner stood the skeleton of a large ape; in another, a human skeleton; and overhead a stuffed crocodile was suspended.

* ''Manga/MagicKaito'': Akako Koizumi has this in her [[OldDarkHouse creepy-looking mansion]].

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon/art/Lets-Endless-Party-Ch-2-pt-3-736912302 chapter 2 part 3]] of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfic ''Let's Endless Party!'', we read that Kyogoku Maria, a very powerful sorceress, has her own study-laboratory at her residence, which in [[https://www.deviantart.com/misakiyu misakiyu]]'s illustrations, is almost [[Expy replicant]] to The Evil Queen's in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon/art/Lets-Endless-Party-Ch-2-pt-3-736912302 chapter 2 part 3]] of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfic ''Let's Endless Party!'', we read that Kyogoku Maria, a very powerful sorceress, has her own study-laboratory at her residence, where she lives in [[SolitarySorceress solitude]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series occasionally features these as stages, whether it be in Dracula's Castle or the castles of someone Dracula-adjacent. The Alchemy Lab from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' is probably the most well known example..

If the wizard practices FantasticScience, their workspace might resemble an academic office or research facility, showing off their own research projects and the reference materials they've amassed. HermeticMagic can require supplies of [[EyeOfNewt spell ingredients]], ceremonial tools, or even specially prepared rooms.

* A small library's worth of literature, usually in the form of enormous leather-bound tomes and reams of parchment scrolls, either stacked in teetering heaps or overloaded on groaning bookshelves.

* A small library's worth of literature, usually in the form of enormous leatherbound tomes and reams of parchment scrolls, either stacked in teetering heaps or overloaded on groaning bookshelves.

* Alembics, mixing bowls, mortars and pestles, retorts, and assorted alchemical apparati, usually filled with ominously bubbling or smoking liquids, [[AlchemyIsMagic due to the association of magic with alchemy]]. A ScienceWizard's workshop might include ordinary laboratory equipment, or extraordinary equipment for ordinary sciences.

* Telescopes, astrolabes, orreries, and other complicated astronomical accoutrements, usually made out of shiny brass, bronze or copper.

* A {{Familiar}}, usually an owl, toad, raven or cat, and its nest or perch.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': The witch's hut contains variety of magical implements, potions in bottles, her crow familiar, and a huge cauldron for mixing new potions. Her front door can also be used to switch to a room where she whittles wooden figurines because as she put it "Never conjure where you carve".

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': The Evil Queen bombastically descends a staircase down to her secret laboratory in her dungeon. Once inside, we see that she has tomes labelled "Black Arts, Black Magic, Alchemy, Sorcery, Poisons" on a shelf covered in cobwebs, glassware and test tubes filled with bubbling liquids, and a raven familiar perched on a human skull.

** ''Literature/WyrdSisters'': Reconstructed. Magrat is a sucker for this stuff, but the elder and more experienced witches Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax think that it's all a waste of time, although maybe good for "headology" -- i.e., for a combination of public image projection and deliberately instilled placebo effects that makes up a good portion of a competent witch's repertory.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': The BlueCollarWarlock Harry Dresden invests most of his funds into a low-budget version of this in the lab in his sub-basement, accumulating features like a high-security [[GeometricMagic summoning circle]], a SympatheticMagic model of the city, and a stock of [[MagicPotion potion-making]] ingredients stored in rows of tupperware boxes and assorted jars.

* UsefulNotes/TarotCards: "The Magician", I of the Major Arcana, shows the Magician standing over a table with objects (a cup, a wand, a sword and a pentacle) representing the Minor Arcana.

* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': There have been a number of mentions of the mage characters having a workshop of their own and even having meetings there. Nine, Trinity, Relius Clover, and presumably even Clavis Alucard had his own workshop[[note]]He needed to have built [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle System No. XX]] and researched creating a spell for TimeTravel somewhere[[/note]]. We see glimpse of two workshops in the game and locating Nine's is plot point in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction''.

*** The Arch-Mage's Quarters in College of Winterhold is easily the most visually impressive Wizard Workshop in the game. An entire garden full of alchemical ingredients with an alchemy table ready for use. An enchanting table with multiple soul gems around the entire room to enchant or refuel enchanted items. It really is a workshop worthy of the TheArchmage. As an added bonus, the Arcanaeum (Wizard Library) is just one room away.

* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': In works like ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''Literature/KaraNoKyoukai'', magi are prone to building workshops to facilitate their magical research. The exact specifications vary based on the magus' field of study and resources, but often include countermeasures and traps to punish trespassers who try to steal the work inside. Especially powerful magi, such as Caster-class Servants from the Age of Gods, can construct "Temples" that also offer them a HomeFieldAdvantage.

* A cast iron cauldron, filled to the brim with unnamable green brew.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
** In the major cities such as Whiterun, Solitude, Markarth, Riften and Windhelm, the local CourtMage will have a private room or area for them to conduct research, make alchemical potions and enchant items.
** The Arch-Mage's Quarters in College of Winterhold is easily the most visually impressive Wizard Workshop in the game. An entire garden full of alchemical ingredients with an alchemy table ready for use. An enchanting table with multiple soul gems around the entire room to enchant or refuel enchanted items. It really is a workshop worthy of the TheArchmage. As an added bonus, the Arcanaeum (Wizard Library) is just one room away.
** You can purchase an [[PotionBrewingMechanic alchemy lab]] and [[ItemCrafting enchanting station]] for almost every [[AHomeownerIsYou purchasable house]], with associated furnishings like shelves and containers of ingredients, bookshelves, display racks, and a [[PowerCrystal soul gem]] holder. Breezehome in Whiterun is the exception: you can only fit in an alchemy lab, and only if you don't use the space for a child's bedroom.
** The [[DownloadableContent DLC]] ''Hearthfire'' includes two options as [[MageTower tower additions]] to your house. The Alchemy Laboratory has fancy lab equipment and plenty of EyeOfNewt stockpiles for [[PotionBrewingMechanic potion-making]], while the Enchanter's Tower has an ItemCrafting altar and display cases for your creations. Academically-inclined characters can pair them with a library tower.

-->--"The Return of the Sorcerer" (1931), Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith

** Just about every [[AHomeownerIsYou purchasable house]] can have workshop with the upgrade is bought. The reason for "just about" is because the Breezehome in Whiterun doesn't come with an enchanter table, only an alchemy lab. Even then, if you want to have your kids live here, you'll have to get rid of the lab to make space for their room. The [[DownloadableContent DLC]] ''Hearthfire'' includes two options as [[MageTower tower additions]] to your house. The Alchemy Laboratory has fancy lab equipment and plenty of EyeOfNewt stockpiles for [[PotionBrewingMechanic potion-making]], while the Enchanter's Tower has an ItemCrafting altar and display cases for your creations. Academically-inclined characters can pair them with a library tower.

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Belgarath the Sorcerer's [[MageTower tower]] is cluttered with seven thousand years' worth of scrolls, specimens, experimental equipment, and {{cobweb|OfDisuse}}s. His greatest scholarly project is TheProphecy; he designed the other gear for projects to [[ScienceWizard improve his understanding of the world]], as sorcery is purely a ThoughtControlledPower.

* ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'': Ursula the sea witch has a glowing cauldron inside her home, which is inside the ribcage of some huge dead creature. Its entrance is guarded by serpentine creatures that try to snare intruders. She also has shelves of "ingredients", many of which have terrified eyes that look out through their clear vessels. Ursula's cauldron works its wicked magic twice: once to transform naive mermaid Ariel into a human girl, and another time to transform Ursula into TheVamp Vanessa.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': The witch's hut contains variety of magical implements, potions in bottles, her crow familiar, and a huge cauldron for mixing new potions.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': The Soul Sanctum, a secluded area high in the spires of the City of Tears where scholarly bugs performed arcane experiments in the nature of the soul, is a complex of opulent rooms filled with bookshelves and vessels full of soul energy.

* ''Literature/TheFaceInTheFrost'': Prospero's living room holds the usual paraphernalia of a practicing wizard, including the inevitable skull that Prospero put there to remind himself of death (although it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist).

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': The Evil Queen bombastically descends a staircase down to her secret laboratory in her dungeon. Once inside, we see that she has tomes labelled "Black Arts, Black Magic, Alchemy, Sorcery, Poisons" on a shelf covered in cobwebs. There are also test tubes and other scientific apparel around her lab.