The Museum comes with a Safehouse for you to live in whilst adding to your collection. The Safehouse is located at the top of the stairs running parallel to the stairs leading to the Museum main entrance.
The suite contains a large Living Room, access to a Patio, a Crafting Room, a Kitchen, a Master Bedroom with a Hidden Treasury, a Bathing Room, Safehouse Room A and Safehouse Room B.
You receive the key to the Safehouse either immediately when starting a game through Alternate start - Live Another Life with the Relic Hunter Start or after reaching a display count of 50. When you do not start with Live Another Life, a messenger will deliver the key to you together with a note from Auryen.
After receiving the key through either means, you can buy up to 12 upgrades for the Safehouse from Bits and Pieces in Solitude:
- General upgrades
- Safehouse Patio Greenhouse Receipt (Patio upgrade 1) - "Greenhouse with mushroom box and an assortment of custom planter boxes. Also included is a sack of seedlings to get you started."
- Safehouse Patio Seating Receipt (Patio upgrade 2) - "Full patio awning with table, chairs and other decor."
- Museum Garden Apiaries Receipt - "2 Apiaries and additional flowering flora for the Museum Garden side yard."
- Upgrades for Safehouse Room A
- Safehouse Armory Receipt (A) - "6 mannequins and an extensive assortment of weapon racks, plaques and display cases."
- Safehouse Follower Furniture Receipt (A) - "1 set of followers' common room furniture including 4 beds, 4 chests, 4 end tables and lamps, shelf, table and chairs, bar set, kegs, and assorted decor."
- Safehouse Garden of Kynareth Receipt (A) - "A beautiful peace garden befitting the splendor of Kynareth's blessings will be installed in your home featuring many native plants and shrubs as well as a working fountain."
- Safehouse Teleporter Receipt (A) - "Fully operational teleport system that will drop you at the main city of each hold other than Solitude obviously. Delivered and set up."
- Upgrades for Safehouse Room B
- Safehouse Armory Receipt (B) - "5 mannequins and an extensive assortment of weapon racks, plaques and display cases."
- Safehouse Follower Furniture Receipt (B) - "1 set of followers' common room furniture including 4 beds, 4 chests, 4 end tables and lamps, shelf, table and chairs, bar set, kegs, and assorted decor."
- Safehouse Kids Furniture Receipt (B) - "1 set of children's furniture including 6 beds, 6 chests, dresser, shelf, practice dummy, rocking horse, 1 table, deluxe Dragonsreach dollhouse, toy box and assorted decor and children's toys."
Note: Adopting 6 children and moving them to the Safehouse requires the Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions mod, and having used the "Bless Home" ability the mod gives you, while in the Safehouse. If this mod is not installed, you will not be able to move your family to the Safehouse. - Safehouse Prison Receipt (B) - "The Safehouse room B will be outfitted as an interrogation room and prison with 4 cells."
- Safehouse Study Receipt (B) - "8 empty book shelves for storage and display, two research desks with chair, sitting area with chairs, tables, sofa and built in fountain, built in wall book cabinets."
All upgrades you bought will be automatically added to the Household Planner in the Master Bedroom, here you can choose between the different options.
Additional Displays
The Safehouse features additional displays for certain items found in the world, if the supported mod is installed:
- If The Curator's Companion is installed and its Achievement system activated, unique displays will be added to the Master Bedroom on the right of the bed, including unique Curator weapons and equipment. Completing achievements from the mod will give gold rewards in a small chest next to the cabinet with the Fate Cards storage on top; while achievement item rewards will spawn somewhere in the museum to be collected.
- The Inn Soaps Display for LotD patch adds a display for Inn Soaps in the Bathing Room adjacent to the Master Bedroom.
- If Cloaks of Skyrim is installed, Legacy of the Dragonborn Patches (Official) SE adds a Cloaks Dresser, a new room which can be accessed from the Master Bedroom.
- If Cheesemod for EVERYONE is installed, Legacy of the Dragonborn Patches (Official) SE adds a Cheese Aging Room in the Kitchen on the right hand side, next to the dishes hutch, where the cheeses are stored and displayed.
- The Legacy of the Dragonborn - Followers Patch adds customized beds with displays for the mod Khajiit Will Follow to either the Follower's Room A or the Follower's Room B (see note below).
- If LOtD - Additional Display Patches (Unofficial) is installed, additional displays for Serana and (if installed) Teldryn Serious are added to either the Follower's Room A or the Follower's Room B (see note below).
Note: With both mods installed you'll have to decide where to set up the Khajiit will follow and the Additional Display Patches displays on installation (don't choose the same room, they will overlap. This CANNOT be changed midgame). Also you must stick to the Safehouse Follower Furniture Receipt (A) or Safehouse Follower Furniture Receipt (B) (or both). If you want to change the layout of the rooms, EMPTY ALL DISPLAYS before doing so, or the already displayed items will end up floating in midair.