Paralives Museum Rewards: Full Collectible Donation Guide

Finishing your early life goals means you have to stop buying furniture and start rummaging through the local dirt.

One of your earliest objectives in Paralives involves discovering the town, and checking off this life goal requires you to make a donation to the local museum. It sounds simple enough, but the game is quite picky about what you can actually hand over. Now, before you get disappointed after trying to donate a cheap wall clock you no longer want, only to find the option completely grayed out in the menu: the museum doesn’t want your garbage.

If you want to clear the objective and earn the milestone rewards, you have to track down specific collectibles hidden across the map.

The Donation Process

You can find the museum located right near the town hall, the library, and the building ruins that eventually become the community center.

When you get there, look for a bright blue box sitting right outside the front door. There is a second blue box inside the building, but you literally have to walk past the first one to reach it, so just use the one outside. Interacting with this box opens up your item store on the left side of the screen. From here, you simply select a valid item and hand it over to fill up the green progress bar on the right.

Tracking Down Collectibles

There are currently 110 total collectibles in the game, and they fall into three strict categories: gems, mushrooms, and buried artifacts. If an item doesn’t fit into one of those buckets, the museum won’t take it.

Where to Look

Gems generally spawn on the extreme outskirts of town. I consistently find them resting on the ground right up against cliff faces and large rock walls. Mushrooms are a bit easier to spot. If you head out to the woodland trail near the cow field, you can usually spot things like the Fly Agaric mushroom sitting in heavily forested areas surrounded by flora.

Buried artifacts are by far the most annoying items to hunt down. They spawn in completely random locations far away from the built up town center. Instead of looking for an item on the surface, you have to look for patches of disturbed earth. These little dirt mounds indicate a buried chest, but they blend into the environment and are incredibly difficult to spot. Once you find one, you just dig it up to claim the artifact.

The Midnight Reset

If you scour the entire map and come up empty, you just need to wait a few hours. The entire collectible system resets exactly at midnight. If you stay up late enough, you can literally watch uncollected items from the previous day vanish into thin air as fresh ones spawn in new locations. If you get tired of hunting for dirt mounds and just want to manipulate the clock to force a reset, read my Paralives Cheats Guide: Every Console Command Explained to easily skip time.

Museum Milestone Rewards

Every time you hand over a valid collectible, the green progress bar ticks up. Hitting specific numerical milestones unlocks a tier of rewards, ranging from raw cash injections to massive functional objects like a wind turbine.