New Leaf Museum Guide: Blathers, Celeste & the Exhibition Rooms

Q: How do you unlock the second floor of the museum in New Leaf?

Talk to Blathers on 14 days and donate 20 items, one in each wing.

The museum on Main Street holds 274 donations across five collections. Its renovation adds Celeste’s shop and four exhibition rooms of your own.

Fish: 72
Bugs: 72
Deep-sea creatures: 30
Fossils: 67
Art: 33

The museum aquarium — The saltwater aquarium.

The museum shop — Celeste’s shop upstairs.

Blathers

Blathers is awake all day in New Leaf. He takes your donations and assesses fossils so you know what they are before donating or selling them.

Five collections

Fish, bugs, deep-sea creatures (new in New Leaf), fossils and art: 72 fish, 72 bugs, 30 deep-sea creatures, 67 fossils and 33 artworks.

The renovation

A public works project (198,000 Bells) that Blathers suggests once you have talked to him on 14 days and donated 20 items with at least one in each wing. It adds the second floor.

Museum shop

Celeste sells museum furniture and the silver net, rod and shovel (500 Bells each, after 30 bugs, 30 fish and 15 fossils).

Exhibition rooms

Four 8×8 rooms you can rent for 10,000 Bells each and decorate like your house, with your own name and banner.

The Roost

Brewster’s café is a separate public works project (298,000 Bells) that Blathers suggests a week after the renovation, once you have donated 50 items with one in every wing.

Art

Redd sells one artwork a day from his plaza tent. Many have forgeries, but in New Leaf you can tell them apart by eye: compare the details below.

What to donate

Collection	Exhibits	Where to start
Fish	72	Rivers, ponds and the sea, every month
Bugs	72	Trees and flowers, spring to autumn
Deep-sea creatures	30	Dive with a wet suit
Fossils	67	Star-shaped cracks in the ground
Art	33	Redd’s tent in the plaza

FAQ

How do you unlock the second floor of the museum in New Leaf?

Talk to Blathers on 14 different days and donate at least 20 items with at least one fish, bug, fossil and artwork. He then suggests the 198,000-Bell renovation as a public works project.

How do you get The Roost café in New Leaf?

A week after the museum renovation, once you have donated 50 items with one in every wing, Blathers suggests the café as a 298,000-Bell project.

How much is an exhibition room?

10,000 Bells each, and there are four.

Sources & picture credits

Guide text is original retrogameindex writing, checked against Nookipedia and the Animal Crossing Wiki. Icons, renders and screenshots © Nintendo; local copies archived from Animal Crossing Wiki file pages (listed in the picture gallery).