Editing The Museum of Mistakes

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''"Everyone has heard of the Museum of Mistakes. Hardly anyone has been inside it."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Museum_of_Mistakes|The Museum of Mistakes|Fallen London|}}</ref>

[[File:Museummistakes.png|thumb|(art from SS)]]The Museum of Mistakes; a dusty old institution on [[Ladybones Road]]<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’The entrance lies behind a gate of amber on Ladybones Road.’</ref> run by the Ministry of Public Decency,<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Prepare_your_Theft_from_the_Museum_of_Mistakes!|Prepare your Theft from the Museum of Mistakes!|Fallen London|}}</ref> and a damnable pain to actually get into. It holds all sorts of ancient things, reminders of old indiscretions and errors.<ref name=":0" /> The item contained whithin can defy belief.

== Records of Failures ==
The Museum has seventy-seven doors, but not all of them are real; some are just painted onto the wall, others hold traps designed to give any intruder a really miserable day.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reconnoitre|Reconnoitre|Fallen London|}}</ref> Perhaps it’d be best just to get in legitimately… but that might be an even more difficult task, given the bureaucratic labyrinth<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’The Ministry uses every weapon in its formidable battery of paperwork to dissuade visitors to the Museum.’</ref> that is the nine stage application process.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’There is a nine-stage application process. You're probably going to need more ink.’</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Use_your_contacts_to_prepare_the_ground|Use your contacts to prepare the ground|Fallen London|}}</ref>

If one did manage to get in, here are some of the sights you might see; 

* A corroded brass microscope smelling faintly of ammonia<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London|}}’Snow in the Neath?’</ref>
* Old musket-balls<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Steal_the_coins!|Steal the coins!|Fallen London|}}</ref>
* Jade carvings<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Attend_with_pleasure|Attend with pleasure|Fallen London|}}</ref>
* A half-eaten fig<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Find_a_way_in|Find a way in|Fallen London|}}</ref>
* A three thousand year old bit of black sailcloth,<ref name=":1" /> labelled 'Achaean, c 1200BC'<ref name=":2" />
* First City Coins<ref name=":1" />
* Diamonds<ref name=":1" />
* A stuffed two-headed bat<ref name=":2" />
* Two locks of hair; one amber, one dark.<ref name=":2" />

There is also the Dadd wing, which contain the museum collection of human remains.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Visit_the_Museum_of_Mistakes|iki/Visit the Museum of Mistakes|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’The Dadd Wing houses the Museum's collection of human remains.’</ref> It require a separate ticket to enter.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’ADMITTANCE to the DADD WING ONLY, it says, in tiny print. And on the back: Not valid for other wings. Entry at bearer's own risk.’</ref> This part of the museum contain glass cases, sarcophages,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’ Its gallery is crammed – on both ground floor and mezzanine – with sarcophagi, dusty glass cases, and tables of jumbled exhibits.’</ref> the skin of of human faces,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_around_6|Ask around 6|Fallen London|}}</ref> part of a skull<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’It is a round curve of thin bone. You examine the label: Calvarium. Canterbury, 1170.’</ref> and its oldest exibit,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’"Its oldest exhibit is a collection of statuettes and jars."’</ref> a collection of Ushabi and Canopic jar given by one Troubled Painter.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’Their plaque is less gnomic than most. Ushabtiu & canopic jars. Nile valley. It names the donor as a certain Troubled Painter.’</ref> This mysterious painter lives in the [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel]] and his name might start with an R.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Impatient_Apprentice|The Affair of the Impatient Apprentice|Fallen London|}}’Eventually, you find a copy of the Museum's correspondence with the Troubled Painter, misfiled under 'R'. You note his address: a suite at the Royal Bethlehem Hotel.’</ref> (Perhaps he his titular Richard Dadd...)<ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dadd|Richard_Dadd|Wikipedia|}}</ref>

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