Animal Crossing: New Horizons is giving players a way to celebrate International Museum Day despite most museums around the world being closed to the public. Starting today, for the next two weeks players can collect stamps in their museums in order to get event exclusive rewards.
This Animal Crossing: New Horizons event isn't particularly difficult, and it certainly shouldn't take two weeks to complete, but it does provide players with some unique decorations they can put up in their houses. There are a few requirements, however, before the player can start working towards getting these.
The big one, understandably, is that the player must have built the museum on their island. For those players that haven't built the museum yet, they will need to give five bugs or fish to Tom Nook. After this is complete, Blathers will set up a tent on the players' island and will request 15 more specimens, this time including fossils. If the player gives these to Blathers, construction will begin on the museum.
To start the event, players will need to speak with Blathers. The owl will give the player some cards and send them on what he calls a stamp rally, which is essentially a scavenger hunt throughout the museum. Each museum exhibit, excluding the art gallery which is added on later, has a stamp station which the player must find, and although the location of this stamp station is random, the cards Blathers supplies give hints as to where they might be.
After finding all three stamps, the player should then return to Blathers with the stamped cards. For each exhibit that the player found a stamp in, Blathers will reward them with the corresponding plaque, ie. the Bug Plaque, Fish Plaque, and Fossil Plaque. Visually, these are identical to the ones found on the entrances to each exhibit, but can be hung up in the player's home as a decoration. Aside from providing these rewards, the event also gives more context to Blathers' museum and museums in general, which is a nice touch for an International Museum Day event.
Some players are even using the plaques to designate their own private collections, as once the museum is filled up there is no reason not to keep extra fossils, bugs, and fish that the player finds. Unfortunately, there is no way to get an art plaque as of yet, but that may change soon.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now exclusively on Switch.
Source: GamesRadar