Museum

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The **New Block Historical Museum** is a Museum located in the New Block City.

## Features

Entrance
The Thinker
“The Thinker” is a statue right at the entrance to the museum, and is a reference to the real-life “The Thinker”. Along the back of its base, there's a coded message that reads "Diligence is to work again".

1st Floor
*“Formed” by Atheen Sullivan*

Found through the entryway to the left wing after entering the museum, this at first just appears to be a block of diorite on an iron bar, however, if you go to the other side of the block, one of the coded messages, “The Maestro” can be found on it.

Paintings
These paintings as of right now don’t seem to hold immediate significance, except for the last one, “Spore” by Steve Oak in the year 1154.

This painting might imply that crystals are either natural to the Tubnet environment, or can at least adapt themselves to be, as this painting has a crystal amongst a forest as if it grew there naturally.

Statues
Going to the second room of the left wing, these white bust statues picture two nondescript guys, and most notably, the Craftmaster, no elaboration is given for them.

Then, there is also a giant stone head that resembles Minecraft’s villagers. In this same area, there are also two under-construction exhibits, a telescope, and an interesting sandstone structure.

The 1st room of the right wing of the museum doesn’t have anything super interesting, just titled paintings that are made using blocks just installed in the walls. The 2nd room of the right wing also doesn’t show anything all that interesting, just being what seems to be a collection of mannequins wearing various dresses, presumably from various eras of New Block City.

Ender Dragon Fight Recreation
Heading into the center room, you’re instantly met with what seems to be a recreation of the Ender Dragon fight from Minecraft, including a skeleton of a dragon. However, interestingly, the crystals used on top of the towers are clearly the same crystals found all over Tubnet and its lore. Along with a more noticeable center tower, the dragon is circling which is not present in normal Minecraft.

Underwater Exhibit
Along the wall of the center room to the left end, there's this exhibit depicting underwater life, but the most notable thing here is among the things expected to be found underwater (fish, seaweed, coral, and crabs) there are also two crystals sitting along the bottom of the sea floor.

“Ancient Stories” 20-40 AV
Along the right side of the wall of the center room, we have the most interesting exhibit in the museum. As it is the only exhibit so far to include a date, 20-40 AV.

We don’t know what “AV” stands for, but considering in the real world years are measured in “BC” (Before Christ) and “AD” (A Latin phrase meaning after Jesus was born), we currently theorize this means “After V[???]”. One possible theory proposed for what the V word is was “Victory”.

It's unclear if the current Tubnet years are also “AV” or something else, as these are said to be “Ancient Stories”.

(We are theorizing the current year in Tubnet is 1223 as in our world’s 1960s, was when the space race took place, and we see SOM Corp launching a rocket in their 1160, so it’d make sense if they were now in 1223, mirroring our current year of 2023.)

Aside from the date, there are two other main notable things in this exhibit, the 1st, “The Prophet”.

Along the far back wall, we see what might be a cave drawing of a person floating above other beings, with pink eyes and the outline of a pink star-like shape surrounding them. In the exact same shades of pink used for the crystals.

The text beneath them is the 2nd coded message found in the museum, it translates to “The Prophet”.

The other most notable thing in this exhibit, that hasn’t been discussed much as the hidden message captures most people's attention, is this large animal skull.

This skull is the exact same model used for the Ender Dragon recreation in the center of the room.

2nd Floor
The left wing of the 2nd floor is mostly just various environmental recreations, things like old housing and mines, along with one still-under-construction exhibit.

The right wing of the second floor is of what seems to be more recent history, with a lot of technological stuff. Including a few interesting things.

At one end of the room, there is what seems to be a small seating area with a TV screen in it, along with two of the white busts seen earlier, including the iconic one of the Craftmaster.

There is also a very large telescope and what seems to be a nuke, likely the same one made by someone on the Tubnet team for Tubbo’s DSMP character when he made nukes.

There also seems to be a recreation of some sort of lab setting and two very large under-construction exhibits in this room, along with 4 paintings that in the files of Tubnet are referred to as Scientists.

Moon Landing
To the left of the center room of the 2nd floor, there is an exhibit of what seems to be 4 astronauts surrounding a flag they likely just planted on the moon.

Rocket Exhibit
In the center room of the 2nd floor, in the center of the far back wall, there is a recreation of a rocket, closely resembling the large rocket currently seated outside of SOM Corp.

Back to the rocket in the exhibit, interestingly surrounding this rocket, there are two sky bridges.

The one to the left is completely blocked off, while the one to the right isn’t blocked off at first.

You can walk down it till you reach this intersection, the path to the right leads you into SOM Corp, while the one continuing forward is blocked off again.

If we refer to the map of New Block City, we can see that there is a whole other half of the museum currently inaccessible to us as of Version 1.0.

Red lines were added to show where the two cut-offs in the sky bridge are.