The Boltaire Museum is a location in Secret Agent Clank. The museum boasts the largest collection of robot artifacts and precious stones in the Solana Galaxy. Among its relics was the Eye of Infinity. When Ratchet appeared to steal the Eye, Clank, at the behest of the Agency, infiltrated the museum to investigate the crime scene and learn where it had been taken.
History[]
The Boltaire Museum boasted the galaxy's largest collection of robot artifacts and precious stones.[1] At some point prior to the events of Secret Agent Clank, a fully-functional replica of Ratchet's Dual Lacerators were on special loan from the Galactic Museum Of Heroism. The museum had also hoped to introduce an exhibit named "A Biobliterator Retrospective".[2]
Ratchet being arrested.
Darla Gratch reporting on the theft.
During the events of Secret Agent Clank, Clank investigated the building for the Agency. During his investigation, Clank was startled to see Ratchet leave the crime scene and promptly be placed under arrest, following which he declared the Eye had been taken somewhere no one would find it. Clank remained in disbelief, though a retinal scan run by Clank's assistant, Ms. Cute Anastasia Bot, confirmed it was Ratchet, and she instructed Clank to remain objective. Nonetheless, the two were aligned on Clank infiltrating the museum to investigate the crime scene.[3]
Clank sneaked past the museum security, and along the way, read plaques for several of the museum's donations, and recovered Ratchet's Dual Lacerators, which he mailed to Ratchet on the Prison Planet in the form of a birthday cake named "Dual Gingerbread Cakes".[4] When he arrived at the crime scene, Clank found a slip from a broken fortune cookie reading "Ancient Proverb: Mind your own beeswax. Made by - Use Your Noodle Cookie Company, Asyanica." Noting the thriving black market on the planet, Ms. Cute Anastasia Bot gave Clank coordinates to Asyanica to continue his search for the Eye.[5]
Layout[]
The exterior (top) and interior (middle) and gem wing (bottom) map layouts of the Boltaire Museum.
Outside of the Boltaire Museum is an outdoor security trench within the forest outskirts of the museum. Large metal security gates through the trenches block entrance to the museum, and are watched over by several watchman robots using flashlights. The trench is protected also by canine-bots, both on patrol, and ready to be called when intruders are detected.
The museum's interior is marked by metal walls, along which are patterns resembling robot machinery. The hallways are sometimes decorated by holographic drapes with scrolling text, red carpets on the floors, or rows of statues of robots (typically resembling space tourists). Portraits of Ratchet and Clank are also seen within some rooms, though the museum exhibits are typically enclosed behind glass. The museum is protected by a complex set of lasers and is heavily guarded by watchmen, security cameras, and secu-tanks.
The museum is split in two segments. One segment is primarily for robot exhibits, and is based around a main hall containing a giant statue of a robot holding a lightning bolt. The other segment is for the precious stones. Though most stones on the second segment are kept in glass exhibits, the exhibit holding the Eye of Infinity is in a vast room, with blue shielding surrounding the singular red carpet walkway leading to it, that holds nothing other than the Eye.
Exhibits[]
The Boltaire Museum has a variety of exhibits of various robots around the Solana and Bogon galaxies:[2]
| Exhibit | Description |
|---|---|
| Dipping bird robot | Responsible for revolutionary advances, from zen meditation to perpetual motion. |
| Silicon etchings from ancestors | Etchings created from ancestors of robots, containing "only" ten million transistors yet a great deal of "poetry". |
| Eye-Bot 3000 | A robot with a unique lifecycle revolving around posting pictures and inane comments to social networking sites. |
| Stone axe with laser sight | Described as an example of robots "improving on organic technology and yet somehow still missing the point" due to the uselessness of the sight on the axe. |
| Fossilized weapons | Robot weapons that pre-date laser technology, and are speculated to be from the days of the "Monster Truck Era". |
| Robotic caveman | Depiction of robot cavemen, which first evolved from ball bearings and springs, before being used in customer service call centers. |
| Robotic hands | Depiction of the first robotic hands, which lacked articulation but had a constant thumbs-up, helping "make peace with their neighbors". |
| Cranial model | A robot cranial model that reappears throughout galactic history, and is described has having proven "particularly appealing to teenagers and other key demographics". |
| Dual Lacerators full-functioning replica | Received on loan from the Galactic Museum of Heroism. |
| Megacorp Rivet Bot twins | Two identical Megacorp Rivet bots, where a contest was held to determine which was the evil twin. Described as difficult to determine due to the lack of glowing red eyes and metal goatees, but won by XT-3302 for altering the trajectory of a comet to hit an animal shelter. |
| Rosetta Tank | A fabled object with resemblance to a tank, and thus the appearance of a weapon of war, that was actually the bathtub toy of a giant sea creature named Cootewloo. |
| Beach-going space tourists | Two exhibits contain tourist bots, one for a masculine-looking bot, and one for a feminine-looking bot. The plaque for the former describes it as manufacturing its own carbonation and thus having the ability to fire natural reserves of suntan lotion on its predators, while the second is described as having nagging, shill cries that can shatter glass and cause local business to mark their products up by 300%. |
| Extermibot twins | Two identical Extermibots separated at birth in another evil twin contest, where one invented robotic puppies while the other invented telemarketing. The plaque encourages museum guests to determine which is good and which is evil by looking at their molecular densities. |