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Tidy Up History Guide

Tidy Up History: All 16 Keys Locations

Every museum key location in acquisition order — wing chain, tables, crates, floorboards, and noise cues.

Last updated: September 18, 2026

Quick Answer

16 keys in a chain — each next key often hides in the room before its wing. Red dots track new pickups; full list below for Keymaster.

Hi, I'm Vook, a key hunter who stopped assuming the Egypt key would be in Egypt — this museum hides the next key in whatever room you just unlocked.

Keymaster unlocks when you hold all 16 keys. You start with a few; the rest are scattered across wings. Red dot indicators on the HUD mark keys you picked up recently — use them so nothing sits forgotten in a backpack.

Main route: hub walkthrough. Knowledge books overlap some key spots: knowledge books.

Key locations overview map

Overview map — pair with the table below; several keys hide in the previous wing, not where the name suggests.


How keys work

  • Keys open locked exhibit wings — progress is a chain, not sixteen random pins.
  • Check tables, boxes, crates, railings, stairs, and breakable floorboards.
  • Listen for key audio cues when you are close.
  • Some keys sit on Knowledge Books — grab the book and the key in one trip if you can.
  • Knowledge ability entries open side rooms that hide extras.

All 16 key locations

# Wing / key Where the key is
1 Theropod Room On the map / floor right as you walk in
2 Ancient Egypt In the Theropod Room
3 Ancient Greece / Rome Top of the stairs — on a Knowledge Book
4 Sub-Saharan Kingdoms Left side of the stairs — on the railing overlooking the museum center
5 Andean & Mesoamerican Floor of the Sub-Saharan Kingdoms room
6 Ancient China On a box in the Ancient Egyptian room
7 Cerapod Clade In the Ancient Chinese room
8 Mesopotamia On a display in the Cerapod Clade room
9 Ancient Japan / Korea Floor of the Mesopotamia room
10 Stone Age Floor in the Ancient Japan / Korea room
11 Indigenous North America In the Stone Age room
12 Ornithopods (Orthropods wing) Under broken floorboards in the Andean & Mesoamerican room
13 Medieval Europe Floor of the Ornithopod room
14 Non-Dinosaur Bones On a crate in the Medieval Europe room
15 Ancient India In the Other Fossils / Non-Dinosaur room
16 Islamic World Floor in the Ancient India room

Key #12 — Ornithopods (floorboards)

Ornithopods key — under broken floorboards in Andean room

Repair the floor first, then loot — fix the floor if the prompt will not show.

Key #14 — Non-Dinosaur Bones (Medieval crate)

Non-Dinosaur key — crate in Medieval Europe room

Medieval Europe crate — easy to walk past if you rush to the fossil wing.

Tip: If a wing name on the door does not match the room you are standing in, trust the physical location column — that is where I found the key, not where the wing label says it should live.


Keymaster checklist

# Found
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

After key 16, Keymaster should pop on pickup or wing unlock. Still missing one? Re-walk the chain — floorboard keys and stair railings are the usual skips.


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