Whether it be art, science, history, or culture, museums can exhibit objects and artifacts of a specific topic. This index is for tropes relating to museums or museum exhibits.
Tropes:
- Break Out the Museum Piece: Making use of obsolete technology (usually from a museum) when the current stuff isn't available.
- Chekhov's Exhibit: If attention is called to a well-protected valuable object on display, it's gonna get stolen before the end of the episode.
- It Belongs in a Museum: A Stock Phrase expressing just how old and/or valuable a given MacGuffin, Artifact of Doom, or hey, maybe someone's Grampa is, often by comparing it to a museum exhibit.
- Living Museum Exhibit: A character as a museum exhibit.
- Menacing Museum: A museum that is disturbing, evil or both.
- Mishmash Museum: A museum with no apparent rhyme or reason to the ways its exhibits are laid out.
- Mistaken for Exhibit: A mundane object is mistaken for an artistic or scientific display.
- Museum Game: A video game made to be a museum for a company or franchise.
- Museum Level: A museum in a video game with features exhibits that are content from the game itself.
- Museum of Boredom: A boring museum.
- Museum of the Strange and Unusual: Weird, creepy museums.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: A character hides by pretending to be a statue exhibit or something similar.
- Wax Museum Morgue: Those wax figures found in a wax museum look a little too much like real people.
