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Tablet Theory: The exhibits don't actually get their historical figure's personality and memories, they get what the person who created them believes those memories and personality to be (or the more needlessly complicated but poetic version: they take on what museum visitors believe about them). This would only affect exhibits who were created by someone else, so it wouldn't apply to Ahk and his family (or Rexy/the other animals, but we wouldn't be able to tell either way).

This is how Teddy, who irl apparently said some fucked up things about Native Americans, was able to fall in love with Sacagawea. It could mean that mummy!Kahmunrah is more chill than wax statue!Kahmunrah. It could also solve the potential paradox of museum exhibits knowing things about themselves/their time periods that historians don't know (just ignore the end of NATM 1. It's my bedtime) and then sharing that with random people during the night program.

The way I'm explaining it being canonically stated (in the books I think) that the exhibits take on the memories and personalities of their irl counterparts is that that's from the perspective of Larry/Nick, who don't know that it's not quite right.

Wanted to draw this bit from the original script

Sappy as it may sound, NATM’s message of “an interest in history makes it come alive” is brilliant.

You don’t need a magic tablet to bring museum exhibits to life. All you need to do is harbor an interest in the subject! Go visit your local museum, get books from your library, read about historical figures, and get involved in learning about different people and cultures.

The real magic is learning because that is what keeps history alive. And that’s the entire message of the NATM trilogy, which is something I find truly beautiful.

Sometimes a family is a violin teacher who is also an unwilling agent of Hell, her housekeeper, her student (a trans runaway sex worker), her girlfriend (an alien donut lady), and the donut lady's family (gourmand aunt, emotional/intellectual twins, average teenage boy, and hologram daughter).

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When I was a kid I didn't understand the blue man group were like, performers, I thought that's just how they acted all the time and also happened to play drums or something

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yes and its so interesting and they also know the life of the historical figure they are and thats just so cool

Anyway did ya'll know that the exhibits being aware during the day is canon?

because it is

I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship

NATM

I want a relationship like whatever that cowboy and roman had going on in that one museum movie.