Museums

[Ksupirates]

I'm curious what others think about the distinction between archaeological and art museums. It is my experience that many of the greatest 'art' museums all have a combination of art AND artifacts. Just in the US, the MET and Philadelphia Museum of Art both have significant armor/weapons collections. Boston's MFA has a large room devoted to musical instruments and all three these museums have everyday items that would be classified as artifacts. Maybe the games art musuem should be able to house both art from great artists and artifacts through archaeologists. The other type of museum would be a scientific or natural history museum that houses natural artifacts that are found by naturalists similar to how archaeologists find artifacts. Current naturalists that make national parks would then be renamed either preservationists or ecologists.

 

[Tech Osen]

Saw your titel and immediately I heard Sean say Museums are on the front lines of the fight for culture...

 

[chordate]

Good idea. Another thing I feel weird is that that archeological museum in game have a T-rex skeleton exhibited but we cannot dig dinosaur.
I think a natural history museum is more suitable for the depiction in game. The naturalist is weak in game (bought by large amount of faith and can only found national park, which is not very powerful and have many restrictions.) If naturalists (or we can have paleontologists) can dig out dinosaur and other ancient species it will be great.

 

[Tech Osen]

The naturalist is weak in game (bought by large amount of faith and can only found national park, which is not very powerful and have many restrictions.)

National parks make tiles you can't improve, mountains and natural wonders, more useful. On top of the tourism they also give 2 amenities to the city and 1 to the 4 nearest cities.

 

[chordate]

National parks make tiles you can't improve, mountains and natural wonders, more useful. On top of the tourism they also give 2 amenities to the city and 1 to the 4 nearest cities.

Thoguh not too bad, national park required 4 breathtaking tiles together. I prefer to get the tier 3 government first and then professional sports. Ski resort also provide amenities with less restriction and available to all cities. On the other hand I still build one national park in every game for some era score and for fun.