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One of the first things you’ll want to add to your museum inTwo Point Museumis a gift shop. It’s a great source of income no matter what stage of progression you’re at, especially on the more difficult campaign stages, and your guests will love it too.
Sure, you can just plop down the bare minimum and put a single Assistant in, and you’ll make a bit of money, but you’ll quickly find guests clamoring for more to buy and more room to shop. If you don’t, you’re missing out on income and a higher museum rating. Here’s how to turn your Gift Shop from grim and bare to glamorous and well-stocked.
Gift Shops, Explained
The Gift Shop isone of the first types of roomsyou’ll need to have in any museum, as it provides asizable and consistent amount of income, especially early on in a location, before you’re getting tons of guests and donations, and ithelps increase your museum’s overall ratingandguest happiness.
This room typeallows your gueststo come in andpurchase one of six different types of merchandisefor a price you set: Trinkets, Plushes, Posters, Onesies, Books, or Toys.
Each merchandise typecomes from its own item, and you canpick which theme you want them to befrom thesame six themes you find Exhibits from.
Gift Shops are onlystaffed by Assistants, and each oneat minimum needsto haveone entrance,one Checkout Counter, andone Trinket Stand, but thatisn’t the only thing you’ll want to havein one.
Customer Service, Guest Happiness, and Aerodynamics are the three best skills an Assistant working in a Gift Shop can have, as all of them provide helpful benefits when checking out guests or restocking merchandise.
You’ll want to fill your Gift Shop withmultiple types of merchandiseso you canappeal to as many guests as possible, and ensure thatmerchandise matches the theme of the Exhibitsyou’re showcasing.
How To Improve A Gift Shop
There areseveral ways to improve your Gift Shopin general and profit-wise, and most of them relate to changing what your Gift Shop sells and the size of it, though other things play a part, like Decorations.
you’re able to alsocustomize the flooring and walls of each Gift Shop by selecting the Room Customization buttonon the individual shop’s information menu.
Just like every other room, theGift Shop has aRoom Rating with a maximum of five, and you canimprove it by adding in additional merchandise, as well asstocking it with Trash Binsand making sure there aredifferent Decorations placed inside, such as themed ones.
Increasing Room Capacity
One of theeasiest thingsto do for your Gift Shop isincrease the Room Capacity.Thesmaller the shopis, thefewer customers that can fit in itand be served, but you’re able to remedy this byselecting Edit Roomfrom the information menu andexpanding the spaceavailable inside.
You cansee a room’s max capacity by checking the Room Capacity number on the room’s information menu, and if the room is currently too full, you’ll get a red symbol with exclamation points above it.
Every two tilesyou add to the roomadds one more capacity, and while there’sno limit to how bigyou can make it, thesweet spot for a large museumis havingbetween 16 and 25 Room Capacity.
Having this large roomallows more guestsinside, and allows you toassign more Assistantsto the room, though each one willneed their own Checkout Counterif they’re going tosell items to guests.
TheRoom Capacity number strictly refers to the number of guests the room can hold. Assistants don’t count towards this number, and the only way to have more of them is by adding more Checkout Counters.
You canstill assign Assistantsto a Gift Shopwithout them having a Checkout Counterthough, and they’llfocus on restocking the merchandise stands instead, which can still be helpful, especially if your shop is busy.
Adjusting The Merchandise Selection
Another way to improve your Gift Shop is changing whatmerchandise you have available, andtheme that merchandise is.
Almostevery guestwill buy something, but they all haveat least one merchandise type they prefer, such asProfessors overwhelmingly preferring Bookcases and Poster Standsto the other types of items.
You can check what merchandise a guest type prefers by going to theGuests tab of Sticker Bookand checking that type’s information profile.
Sinceeach museum in the Campaign has a general themeyou’ll be following, you canmaximize your Gift Shop’s profitsby figuring out whattype of guests your museum attracts most, and stocking the shop with themerchandise they prefer.
Trinket Stand and Bookcase
Poster Stand and Plushie Stand
Bookcase and Poster Stand
Onesie Stand and Toy Stand
How To Create A Multi-Theme Gift Shop
Depending onfactors like the Campaign levelyou’re at, thesize of your museum, and thenumber of themes you havein your museum, youwon’t want to only have one theme of merchandiseavailable in your Gift Shop.
For example, if you have bothPrehistory and Marine Exhibits,only having one theme of merchandise will hurt your profits,because youwon’t be appealing to the variety of guestsyou’ll be seeing.
As soon as youhave at least two Exhibit themes, expand your Gift Shop if possible and check to seewhat type of guests you’re primarily attractingbased on those themes. Then, go to theSticker Book and check the Guests tabto see what merchandise they prefer, andstart adjusting your Gift Shopaccordingly.
If you’reputting specific themes in specific plots, you can also have multiple Gift Shops, each with their own theme andAssistants handling theminstead of one massive shop for everything.
For example, if you haveBotany and Science Exhibits together, which is mandatory onBungle Wasteland’s campaign level, at least temporarily, you’ll be getting a lot ofScience Enthusiasts, Professors, and Botany Enthusiasts as guests.
They’llprefer Bookcases, Toy Stands, and Poster Standsacross all three of them, so you can focus on having one Toy Stand, and thenseveral Bookcases and Poster Stands, and make sure there’sone for each theme.
Thereisn’t a limitto how manymerchandise stands you can put in a room, onlywhat can fit, as each oneneeds a minimum amount of spacethat includes thestand itself and room for gueststo approach it, so you could evenmake a room large enoughto includeevery guest’s preferred typeif you wanted.
