Changing the floor underneath your exhibits and topping them off with a border breaks up the monotony of your all-the-same-floor rooms. Cutting the corners makes it extra elegant.


Experiment with different types of floor, and feel free to check out my Colour Palettes guide for inspiration!

The seams in perpendicular walls being visible is an eyesore, and you sadly can't hang wall decorations over them. But a double banner covers it right up!



If a banner isn't your jam, pillars to the job quite nicely as well.

Having smaller exhibits scattered around your big museum room can look a bit cluttery. Building a sort of exhibit container around it solves that, and curved info stands make for a great backdrop for your round exhibits!



They also do well for Tour Stands, as they double as information boards with all the tour times on it.

Have an exhibit that asks for something that doesn't really fit within the theme of its surroundings?



No problem! We can (probably) hide it, one way or the other.

Aligning things neatly might be your first impulse, but nature doesn't do that.
Add randomness to make things seem more natural.



A good trick to get started with, for example, randomising grass is layout out a pattern but skipping half a tile every once in a while. When you skip a tile, put another skipped tile on top of it. Yes, that's adding less-random structure to randomisation, that's just how the human brain works.

Don't be afraid of the Line Placement tool!

Not only is it great to make literal diagonal paths, you can also get really creative with it.

Take for example this dirt and grass room, perfect for a natural looking Botany museum:



There is no right way of doing this, just experiment and see where it takes you!

A good strategy is to lay out dirt paths to the places where you'll have doors and exhibits, and then go crazy on the rest!

Similar suggestion for the different types of mossy stone. Mix and match them, and go wild with the Line Placement tool to get that rough, aged, patchwork feeling.

Necessity is the mother of invention.



Take, for example, this Explorer's Trunk, which really works well as a coffee table in a pinch when you need one!

We don't have fancy screens in our cafeteria, and neither do we have kitchen counters for food prep and what not, so the next best thing is a trolley planter, for that fresh lettuce feeling.

I like to have some variation in wallpaper, and breaking them up with pillars.

Add some vines that start at the pillar and crawls onto the walls, leaving the backdrop open.



Putting something in front of it adds even more depth.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise you can recolour the Catacomb Walls, both in design and in colour. The result is: they make for ideal makeshift curtains to extend the stage...



...or just hang behind your exhibits.



One of the other options in brown makes for a convincing haunted bookshelf, too.

I don't have any commentary for this one whatsoever - I was just derping around outside my museum when I accidentally ended up with this:



... so I thought I'd share. :3

Just some screenshots that don't need instructions.

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