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| <blockquote>''"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></blockquote>[[File:Museummistakes.png|thumb|(art from SS)]]'''The Museum of Mistakes''' is 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 d__nable pain to actually get into. It holds all sorts of ancient things, reminders of old indiscretions and errors.
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| ==Halls of Shame==
| | [[File:Museummistakes.png|thumb|(art from SS)]]"The Museum of Mistakes; a dusty old institution on [[Ladybones Road]] run by the Ministry of Public Decency, and a damnable pain to actually get into. It holds all sorts of ancient things, reminders of old indiscretions and errors. Whether they’re actually genuine or not is another question entirely. |
| The Museum has seventy-seven doors, but not all of them are real; some are just painted onto the wall, while 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 to enter 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> | |
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| The following are known to be on display in the Museum: | | 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. Perhaps it’d be best just to get in legitimately… but that might be an even riskier prospect than breaking and entering, given how treacherous the bureaucratic labyrinth that is the official entry process tends to be. Secretaries have been known to get lost somewhere inside it. |
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| *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>
| | If you actually did manage to get in, here are some of the sights you might see; a corroded brass microscope smelling faintly of ammonia, old musket-balls, jade carvings, a half-eaten fig, a three thousand year old bit of black sailcloth, First City Coins, [[Polythreme|Polythremian]] knives, diamonds, a stuffed two-headed bat, two locks of hair; one amber, one dark. Maybe you’ll even get into the Dadd Wing, if you remembered to fill out the entirely different application form for another ticket entirely. No, probably not, then." |
| *Old musket-balls<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Steal_the_coins!|Steal the coins!|Fallen London}}</ref>
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| *Jade carvings<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Attend_with_pleasure|Attend with pleasure|Fallen London}}</ref>
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| *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>
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| *A three thousand year old bit of black sailcloth,<ref name=":1" /> labelled 'Achaean, c 1200BC'<ref name=":2" />
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| *First City Coins<ref name=":1" />
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| *Diamonds<ref name=":1" />
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| *A stuffed two-headed bat, almost the size of a man<ref name=":2" />
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| *Two locks of hair; one amber, one dark.<ref name=":2" />
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| == Grim Reminders ==
| | ''text by Spacemarine9'' |
| The '''Dadd Wing''' contains the museum's collection of human remains<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Visit_the_Museum_of_Mistakes|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> and requires 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> It houses glass cases, sarcophagi,<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 exhibit,<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 ushabti and canopic jars donated 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 Painter lives in the [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel|Royal Bethlehem Hotel]], and his name is implied to 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>
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| == Historical Inspirations ==
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| The mysterious painter and namesake of the Dadd Wing may be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dadd Richard Dadd]. In real life, Dadd was a troubled but prolific illustrator who produced most of his best-known work while in psychiatric hospitals (one of which was Bethlem Royal Hospital).<ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dadd|Richard Dadd|Wikipedia}}</ref>
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