Donating items to the museum is an important part of progression in , but that's not all it's good for — players can actually claim quite a few rewards for the pieces they donate.
Museum donations fall into one of three categories, drawing from 's wider Minerals, Artifacts, and Scrolls item types. You can always recognize a donatable item when its flavor text reads, "" Of course, not all items should be donated immediately — there's some value in keeping your first Prismatic Shard, Dinosaur Egg, and Diamond to yourself.
In the long run, though, you'll definitely want to keep an eye on your donation progress and, when you're confident you don't have any other use for them, donate everything you possibly can.
The rewards are various, which means they're not always game-changing, but more than a few of them are downright necessary to your progress in.
First, you receive certain rewards just based on the number of items you donate to the museum, with no regard to what those specific items are.