Art Museum (Civ6)

Art Museum
Building of the Renaissance Era
Introduced in Civilization VI
Unlocked by	Humanism
Cost
Production	290
Production	290
Maint.	2
Maint.	2
Requires
District	Theater Square
Infrastructure	Amphitheater  Marae
Effects
+2 Culture +1 Citizen slot +1 Great Writer point per turn. +2 Great Artist points per turn. +3 Great Works of Art slots.

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The Art Museum is an advanced cultural building in Civilization VI. It is built in the Theater Square district and requires an Amphitheater (or one of its replacements).

• Effects:
  • +2 Culture (boosted by Grand Opera policy card)
  • +1 Citizen slot
  • +1 Great Writer point per turn
  • +2 Great Artist points per turn
  • +2 Culture for each Cultural City-State with 6 Envoys.
    • With Ethiopia Pack: +2 Culture for each Cultural City-State with 3 Envoys.
  • +3 Great Work of Art slots
    • Theming bonus: Doubles Tourism output when displaying Great Works of the same type from different Great Artists
• Restrictions:
  • Cannot be built if Archaeological Museum has already been built in this district

Strategy

The Art Museum is the second building inheriting the features of the old Museum building from Civilization V: Brave New World, and this one is exclusively dedicated to artwork rather than artifacts. That means that you cannot display any Artifacts at all in it! You can, however, display any of the multiple types of Great Works of Art in the game.

Activating its theming bonus is more challenging, though. You must fill all three of the Art Museum's slots with one of the following types of Great Works of Art, each of which must be created by a different Great Artist:

• Sculptures
• Religious
• Landscapes
• Portraits

This means that a single Great Artist can fill an Art Museum's slots, but they cannot activate its theming bonus. You will either need to trade with other players to get Great Works of the same type from Great Artists they had, or wait for a Great Artist who produces the type of Great Works you need and attract them to your civilization. Displaying a Great Work of Art in an Art Museum that's already displaying a Great Work of Art by the same Great Artist reduces its Culture and Tourism yields to 1, so moving your Great Works of Art between Art Museums is essential to maximize the Culture and Tourism you get from them.

In Rise and Fall, each cultural city-state with 6 or more Envoys gives an additional +2 Culture in each Art Museum.

Civilopedia entry

Art museums (or art galleries) are public spaces - paid for by the public, usually in the form of taxes – to house artwork meant to edify and uplift the masses. The art objects may take many forms: paintings, sketches, sculptures, ceramics, metalwork, prints, and now even video. Perhaps the first such effort at bringing high culture to the public took place in 1671 AD, the Amerbach-Cabinet in Basel (now the Kunstmuseum). But the whole idea of such collections for public edification really took off during the Renaissance, with the likes of the Capitoline, Vatican, and Uffizi galleries established. The 1700s saw another wave of iconic collections open: the Hermitage, the Prado, the Louvre, and the first American museum, the Charleston Museum, in 1773. The Louvre was established in 1793, soon after the French Revolution when the royal collection of art was declared the property of the people, beginning the trend of removing art from the grasp of the wealthy and putting it on tasteful display for the public to gawk at.

See also

• (Art) Museum in other games