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It belongs in a museum!

It belongs in a museum!

Bring an artifact back to the museum.

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How to unlock the It belongs in a museum! achievement in Outer Wilds - Definitive Guide

You need to bring the forge core (or any "artifact" such as black/white hole cores, however scrolls and projection plates didn't work for me) to the museum observatory at the main village.

To get the forge core you're heading to Ash Twin planet. You need to wait several minutes until enough sand is sucked to Ember Twin in order to get into a specific tower.

If you follow the sand vortex around the equator the first one has a sun pattern on the roof, then it's two towers next to each other. You need to get to the floor of the tower with the broken roof.

Now stand in there near the far wall (opposite of the good tower) until the vortex is overhead. Wait until it's exactly overhead and run into the center of the floor. You'll be teleported to the core. Go around to the opposite of this area and there's a switch to open the core housing and a switch to disable gravity. Do both those, grab the core, go back on the pad you used to get here, go back in your ship, and fly back to the observatory. Achievement will pop as soon as you step foot inside the museum area with core in hand.
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31 May 2019 05:38

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Nearly perfect guide! One thing I would add -- it's probably worth warning people that if you take the core and head back to the museum, and don't put it back (or don't quit out before the end of the cycle), you will have broken the time loop and will permanently die.

So if you are still trying to get everything together for the Archaeologist achievement you need to make sure you don't allow this loop to end with you still holding on to the core!

If you're quick you can quit out of the game and delete your local save data.
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By kintaris on 04 Jun 2019 20:38
Nice. I actually got this by bringing back a broken warp core from the Vessel in Dark Bramble. This seems much faster.
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By Virtual Boy on 31 May 2019 08:54
I'm now wondering if a stone from the quantum moon would work too. It'd probably be treated as a scroll but not sure. Or the mini-cores you can get at high energy lab on Ember Twin; those would probably work. Still would take more time I think since I haven't found a way in there before that one cave fills with sand (and less sand is required for the warp core).
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By fallouthirteen on 31 May 2019 09:28
Just got the achievement using one of the warp cores from the High Energy Lab on Ember Twin, so those definitely work too.
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By Scoot338 on 31 May 2019 09:48
Fantastic walkthrough for this achievement! Thanks very much +1
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By Zombie4EvilDead on 31 May 2019 16:22
Who down votes here? :o
But I think you can bring ANYTHING to the museum since the Descriptions says "Bring an artifact back to the museum." Can someone test that?
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By King fiShiZ on 01 Jun 2019 11:05
I tested scroll and projection plate (since those are easiest) and they didn't work. It has to be kind of special.
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By fallouthirteen on 01 Jun 2019 18:09
Doesn't matter though. After you die you can reload your save right before you did that loop. So you don't really lose anything.
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By fallouthirteen on 05 Jun 2019 04:41
You can "break the loop" ???

Does the broken core in Dark bramble/Vessle also do this? Or only active cores? I'd like to do this but don't want to mess everything up!
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By GRAND NOBLE on 27 Nov 2019 16:15
Can confirm that the broken core also works!
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By crewdy#4923 on 31 Dec 2019 21:27
I can confirm that the partial warp cores in the High Energy Lab work for this too, in case you don't want to end the loop or deal with Dark Bramble.
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By Indiscriminator on 01 Sep 2022 03:20
I got this by accident with broken core from Dark Bramble/Vessle
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By KILLjuice008 on 20 Oct 2022 01:03
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To perform this i followed the path in the video link below to get to the High Energy Lab. Once there I just grabbed one of the Warp Cores off the wall in the Lab and then proceeded to to go back to the home planet to the Observatory. Walk into the Observatory building and achievement should pop soon after.

I don't take credit for this video. It was created and published by King fiShiZ

This video will also get you to the area to do this achievement
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09 Jun 2019 01:11

WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD

This achievement involves end game plot. I recommend beating the entire game before attempting this. For those who don't care about spoilers, you can quickly do this on the way to the end of the game location.

Guide to It belongs in a museum Achievement:

-Take off in your ship and start heading to the Ash Twin.

-Land on just beside the equator to avoid your ship being carried away by the sand.

-Wait until some towers start to appear along the equator. Find the one that is two towers of unequal height right next to each other with a bridge across them.

--When you can, enter the shorter tower and stand in the little enclave by the bookshelves so you have a roof over your head. Wait for the sand pillar to head over top, and when it is directly above you, quickly run onto the purple teleporter on the floor.

-You will be warped to the


Follow the path all the way to the end. Drag the light orb in the floor (by staring at it) as far as it can go and up the small pillar to unlock the


Nearby is another light orb. Drag it to disable gravity. Float to the
above you and take it. Return through the portal you entered.

-Return to your ship and take off. Return to Timber Hearth to the Village and enter the Observatory while holding the
Once you enter, this should pop the achievement.

Congratulations on earning the It belongs in a museum Achievement!
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13 Jun 2021 00:00

Location: Ember Twin, High Energy Lab and Timber Heart museum
Time: early in the game or the laboratory entrance will be locked
Special note: Do this before You've met a terrible fate. trophy_gold.png 

Once you reach the High Energy Lab, take one "Hole Stone" and take it in Timber Heart museum. Use the door on the top floor of the Lab to exit. Trophy unlocked.
Go back to the lab (you have the door opened now) and get You've met a terrible fate. trophy_gold.png 
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The easiest way is to drag one of the energy cores from the Energy Labs at the Hour of Coal. Scrolls and tablets with texts say they don’t work, I haven’t checked it myself.
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30 Dec 2019 11:32

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You can bring
1) One of the energy cores that are in the laboratory at the Hour of Coal
2) An empty hypercore on the Starship, which is located on the Blackthorn
3) Advanced hypercore at the Hour of Ashes.

It’s enough just to walk into the observatory with an object in your hands.
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By Stankevich7 on 22 Apr 2023 20:56
Bring to the museum (from the very beginning of the game) to choose from:
- working kernel
- broken core from Blackthorn
- black hole generator from the Laboratory at the Hour of Coal
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23 Jul 2021 18:17