Central Museum

Central Museum
Stage Information
Boss	Ground Scaravich
Powerups	Life Up Blade Armor's Head Program
Nightmare effects	Nightmare Iron, Nightmare Wind
Nightmare induced at exit	Nightmare Cube
Music

Central Museum (セントラルミュージアム, Sentoraru Myūjiamu) is Ground Scaravich's stage in Mega Man X6. It is an abandoned (yet pristine) museum that, according to the Stage Select Screen, is located around what vaguely appears to be Queensland, Australia.

Description

Among other things, the museum has images of dinosaurs, sea life, ancient Egyptian structures and of the Earth. Visitors were instructed to remain quiet and follow their given route, according to signs at the beginning of the museum.

The stage seems straightforward, consisting of several straight halls, but each has a blue Totem Gate that will transport the player to a random sub-area. Once the sub-area is completed, they will be brought back to the hall and must destroy the Totem Gate to progress. There are a total of four Totem Gates to pass through before reaching the boss.

There are eight areas that the Totem Gates can send the player. There are two horizontal hallways (one with pits, another with spikes), a vertical climb with platforms, a vertical descent with ramps, two sloped areas (one ascending, the other descending), an area with ladders plus the Another Route gate, and a rectangular area with the Light Capsule. After completing one area, it will not repeat in the remaining Totem Gates. As the areas are determined upon entering the stage, dying does not reshuffle the areas, though they may have slightly different placements of blocks and spike traps.

The Nightmare Phenomena that may affect this stage are Nightmare Iron and Nightmare Wind. The phenomenon that this stage activates in others is Nightmare Cube.

The Another Route portal is located in the Totem Gate area with ladders. It transports the player to a similar room, but with a set layout.

Enemies

• Totem Gate
• Totem Exit
• Nightmare Virus
• Nightmare Random

Items

Upgrades

	Life Up
	The Life Up is near the end of the upward-sloped Totem Gate area, which is reached randomly. This element of randomness can make it difficult to obtain.
	Blade Armor Head Program
	The capsule is found immediately in one of the Totem Gate areas.

Parts from Injured Reploids

	PL 98 - Life Up
	In the downward-sloped Totem Gate area.
	Tsuki - Speedster
	In the upward-sloped Totem Gate area (the same as the Life Up).
	Bad - Quick Charge
	In the ladder Totem Gate area (the same as the Another Route gate).
	Home - Energy Up
	In the vertical descent Totem Gate area.
	Mars - Overdrive
	Directly before the boss shutter in the Another Route.