If you’re looking for a game to keep your board game group coming back for more, get to the Museum and procure the grandest collection!
Museum is a 2-4 player game by designers Eric Dubus and Olivier Melison. Published by Holy Grail games, Museum features stunning artwork from Vincent Dutrait. A typical game can take between thirty and sixty minutes depending on player count.
Museum: $59.99
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Take on the role of a Curator during the golden age of museums and fill your galleries with priceless artefacts that will delight your visitors! Bring back pieces of history from all around the world and create collections that tell the tale of ancient civilisations. However, yours is not the only establishment vying for archaeological glory! Increase your prestige, call in favors and deal with historical events to bring fame and fortune to your Museum!
As well as being a fun, immersive experience featuring almost 300 unique illustrations, Museum is also rich in historical content. All of the artefacts and places present in the game are real, and the information on each card is factual!
Contents:
24 Expert Cards
27 Favor Cards
17 Headline
27 Patron Cards
20 Public Opinion Cards
12 Public Opinion Tokens
32 Prestige Tokens
1 Central Board
4 Museum Boards
1 Experts Board
1 Embargo Token
1 Customs Token
4 Player Tokens
8 Gaming Aids
Ages: 10+
Players: 2-4
Game Length: 60 minutes
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Each player in Museum acts as a curator in charge of arranging displays and procuring rare artifacts from around the world. Players are given a museum layout board in which to display their items. Artifact cards are laid out in contiguous groups in order to form collections. These collections can either be from a single civilization or a domain. Domains are cultural technologies such as nautical, warfare, architecture, or theology. These will score increasingly as you add more cards to the collections.
Rounds play in turn order, with each player becoming the active player. The active must take one artifact from the four continent displays. Then each other player may choose to take an artifact as well. This grants the active player a prestige point for each card an inactive players takes. The active player then can furbish their gallery.
You must use other cards in your hand to pay for any you wish to display. The cost in the top left must at least equal the value of the card going into your museum. You then put the used card into your common pile which acts as a warehouse. Cards can come from this pile as well as other players discard piles.
Another thing is that you can buy from other players but must pay them a prestige point for each card taken. You place your cards used to pay into that players discard pile as well. Once you display your artifact and you score points based on its value. Then you can hire an expert that will either give you a bonus or add to your sets.
The alternate action you can take for your turn is to take inventory. This allows you to pick your entire discard pile up and add it to your hand. While this can be a good method to regain cards you spent but you can only have seven cards at the end of your turn. If you take the inventory action then you won’t be able to do anything else on your turn.
There are also patron cards that want you to build your display a certain way for more points. Each player will receive three of these and choose the one they want to try to achieve.
Headlines are cards that shake up the game from time to time. Starting with the second round, a new headline reflecting historical events appears. These can change how a round plays. These can be an embargo for a specific continent preventing you from obtaining artifacts there.
Museum is a fantastic game that hits the table often. The set collection and arrangement is a really fun gameplay element. The artwork is phenomenal, Vincent Dutrait is a very talented artist. Every single card is beautifully drawn by him and each is as lovely as the last.
If you love beautiful artwork and engaging gameplay with set collection then Museum is a fine choice. If you get a chance to try this one out don’t hesitate, it’s that good. Your game night would welcome this title to your rotation.
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