In DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum, repair the bent carrier at each exhibit, then fit the bones from the nearby crates until all nine skeletons reach 100%. You can move between dinosaurs while you work. Use the map beside the workshop to find each display, and check the Museum screen for its remaining percentage. As particular heads, wings, and frills come together, collect the tools they reveal. Save the hunt for tiny missing bones until you have the search aids. When all nine skeletons are finished, the game shows “Thank you for playing”. The coin album and photographs can still be unfinished.
Start with the carriers and the workshop map
Leave the opening room and look for the bent black metal support in the first exhibit. Aim at a glowing bubble on the support and keep working the hammer until that joint straightens. Move to the next bubble on the same carrier. The exhibit shows a pale outline of the finished animal once its support is usable; that outline is the target for the bones you will bring over. The same repair task applies to each of the nine displays, and straightening all nine also satisfies the Solid Foundations achievement.
Interact with the map on the wall near the workshop to orient yourself around the central Brachiosaurus and the surrounding exhibits. Read the name plaque beside a skeleton when you arrive, especially upstairs. The nine species you must finish are Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Mammoth, Spinosaurus, Kentrosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Pteranodon. Open the Museum screen with Tab to see each animal’s percentage. A straight carrier is only the start of that exhibit; the percentage tracks the bones you have fitted.
Empty crates without losing the small bones
Each bone crate contains pieces for two species. Read its label before dragging its contents across the hall. Clear the large skull, limb, rib, and spine pieces first, using the animal’s outline to decide which display is worth trying. That gives you room to see the tiny toes, joints, and teeth that can disappear into a pile of crates or across the patterned floor. If a bone is rejected at an exhibit and glows red, carry it to the other species named on the crate instead of repeatedly trying nearby sockets on the wrong skeleton.
On the correct species, the placement color moves from cold toward warm and hot as the held piece approaches its slot. Look at the skeleton diagram for the general body area before making small adjustments. After 10% expertise with a species, its carried bones appear yellow, which makes a second pass through a mixed crate much easier. Do not rely on the shape of one rib or vertebra alone when the two species have similar pieces. The crate label, exhibit plaque, color response, and diagram together give you a way to reject a wrong match without scattering bones again.
Keep the loose pieces for one crate in view while you work through it. Bones can bounce when nearby pieces collide, and a small part may land well away from its pile. If an animal’s percentage has stopped rising, check the floor around its crates and the approach to its display before opening another. The pause menu has Auto-Arrange, which rearranges bones and crates that have not been placed. Use it when the unplaced pieces have spread too far to search efficiently.
Use the 50% and 95% aids for the final pieces
The search tools belong to individual dinosaurs. When one species reaches 50%, its matching monocle becomes available in the workshop. Use that color-coded monocle to pick its bones out of the remaining clutter. At 95%, that species’ Field Book becomes available. Using the Field Book makes a remaining bone for that animal appear behind you with a sparkle. These unlocks are the reason to build a substantial portion of one skeleton before sweeping the whole museum for a single missing tooth.
If one exhibit is at 95% while another is barely started, take the near-complete animal’s Field Book first, then return to the mixed crates for the next species. Recheck the percentage after placing the sparkling bone. The exhibit’s socket and Museum entry tell you whether it counted. Search the workshop and the exhibit again if the entry still falls short of 100%. The three-, six-, and nine-skeleton milestones count fully completed displays, so a hall of nearly finished animals will not satisfy them.
Collect the exhibit rewards while the matching bones are in hand
Several body-part milestones point you back to the workshop or reveal something close to an exhibit. Pick up the reward when its clue appears; otherwise it is easy to finish another skeleton and forget which cabinet or drawer changed. These are the useful detours to watch for during a nine-skeleton run:
- Finish the Brachiosaurus head and pick up the fallen hammer. It removes crates and pallets, opening space around the remaining bone piles. The Brachiosaurus is the central exhibit, so the tool is worth collecting before a long floor search.
- Finish the Triceratops frill, follow the light into the workshop, open the lit cabinet, and take the watering can. Use it on the grassy exhibit gardens if you are pursuing A Greener Museum; the Mammoth display has snow rather than a garden.
- Finish the Pteranodon wing bones and collect the wooden glider they reveal. The wing bones extend above the body; look up at the carrier if you have only checked the floor around the display.
- Finish the Parasaurolophus head, follow its call, and open the cassette cabinet in the workshop. There are nine cassettes together there. Match each one to its exhibit kiosk if you want The Full Playlist.
- Follow the Kentrosaurus clue to reveal the souvenir coin press before trying to pick up hidden coins. The press itself shows the order Insert, Press, Collect. The coin album is a separate collection task after that unlock.
- Place the Pachycephalosaurus dome bone, follow the light to the workshop drawer, and collect the Polaroid. The camera is needed for the cat photograph, the model-and-snow-globe shot, and portraits of completed exhibits.
When a coin falls from the Kentrosaurus, follow its glowing trail down to the press by the stairs. Set the blank coin on the lit plate inside the machine, hold E at the lever on its right side, and collect the stamped coin from the lower tray. The plate on the press reads “1 Insert, 2 Press, 3 Collect”; pulling the lever while the coin is still in your hand will not stamp it. The other souvenir coins become collectible after this reveal, so leave an early coin sighting alone until you have followed the Kentrosaurus clue.
The Mammoth and Tyrannosaurus rex have separate secrets that are easy to mistake for missing bone tasks. Dig the snow globe from the Mammoth’s snowdrift; placing it on a suitable surface beside that exhibit is its own achievement. Beside the T. rex, look under the rug for the first model piece, then assemble the model kit in the workshop. The cat flap can be opened to let the cat inside. None of those actions replaces a missing bone on the Museum progress screen, but collecting the objects while you are in each area saves a return trip if you later pursue the photo achievements.
Finish the nine displays, then separate ending from cleanup
Work around the Museum screen until every species reads 100%. You can move between exhibits as you find usable pieces. Finish a nearly complete skeleton with its Field Book, collect any nearby reward, and then work on the next mixed crate. If a display stays short of 100%, return to its color-coded monocle and Field Book. A reward or photograph will not fill a missing socket.
After the last required bones are placed, the game shows a “Thank you for playing” message and a view of the restored museum. The message says the nine skeletons have every bone and also tells you that not every secret has been found. You can continue inside the museum afterward. For The Curator’s Signature, that separate cleanup includes all nine skeletons, the filled coin album, and all nine cassettes played at the matching kiosks. For Museum Portraits, photograph each completed exhibit with the Polaroid. Reaching the ending alone does not confirm either collection.
Fill the coin album after the museum ending
The coin that drops from the Kentrosaurus starts this collection. Follow it to the press, use the machine’s Insert, Press, Collect sequence, and carry the stamped coin to the nine-slot album board in the workshop. You can return for the other eight coins after the skeleton ending. They are small enough to blend into the floor and exhibit furniture, so use these landmarks rather than sweeping every crate pile again:
- Workshop plant pot: Look along the pot’s upper rim, above the soil.
- Front entrance: Walk out from the workshop toward the main doors. Check the beveled base of the right-hand decorative pillar; the coin sits above the floor light.
- Pachycephalosaurus: Find the statue against the wall next to the workshop, behind this exhibit. The coin is beneath the statue.
- Triceratops: Search the floor immediately left of its exhibit podium.
- Spinosaurus and Kentrosaurus: Upstairs, find the Monster of the Past poster on the right wall. The coin lies on the floor beside the box below it.
- Mammoth: Upstairs, look to the animal’s right for an old object marked “Push”. Check the floor on that object’s right side.
- Parasaurolophus: Behind the pallet holding four bones, search the narrow space toward the wall leading from the Mammoth area.
- Tyrannosaurus rex: Upstairs, face the stairs and inspect the beveled top of the right-side pillar base near the T. rex display.
The Kentrosaurus coin plus these eight hiding spots account for the nine album spaces. If a coin you found is still blank, use the press’s labeled steps before taking it to the album. Filling the album earns No Empty Slots; The Curator’s Signature also requires the nine completed skeletons and all nine cassettes played at their matching kiosks.