Cohen's Muse Box

"If you had become my one and true Disciple, you might have been worthy of seeing inside the box of my most Private muse… but who knows if that man is yet even born."

- Sander Cohen to Jack

Cohen's Muse Box is a chest owned by the artist Sander Cohen in Rapture.

Description
The content of Cohen's Muse Box is, as the name implies, Cohen's "most private muse."

The chest has a nacre pastern, with scallop shell-shaped hinges and seashell-shaped key hole. A bras statuary octopus sits on the chest, with it's eight arms surrounding the box. four of the octopus's arms serve as legs for the chest and two hold the keyhole-seashell, while the reaming two are the handles.

The chest was placed on display in the Atrium of Fort Frolic in Rapture, locked under a dome. It is unknown if this was the chest's originally intended location or if it was moved here after the start of the Rapture Civil War and the closure of Fort Frolic.

BioShock
During the events of BioShock, Cohen's Muse Box can be found by Jack, intact in the Atrium of Fort Frolic. The chest sits on a pedestal under a see-through glass dome connected to the sealing, tightly locked with chains and a padlock. Next to the chest is one of Cohen's artworks, containing the Gene Tonic Medical Expert 2, also under a dome, but locked with a Number Lock. The player can't open either of them at first encounter.

After Jack has completed Cohen's Quadtych, Sander Cohen himself will appear in joy to observe his masterpiece. If Jack doesn't kill Cohen, he will opens the artwork next to his Muse Box out of gratitude, calling it one of his lesser works. Cohen explains that if Jack would have become his true disciple, he might have gotten the chance to see inside the Muse Box, but as such, he leaves it locked and strictly commands Jack to leave Fort Frolic.

If the player kills Sander Cohen and searches his corpse, Jack will get Sander Cohen's Muse Key, which will unlock the Muse Box. Upon unlocking, Jack finds 69 Dollars, 8 Incendiary Bolts and most disturbingly: 3 Spider Splicer Organ, revealing Cohen's personal muse.

Behind the Scenes

 * Sander Cohen will be encountered later on in his Mercury Suites apartment of Olympus Heights, meaning that if the player kills Cohen in Fort Frolic, they won't be granted the entry to Cohen's bedroom, which contains a Power to the People. Cohen will still carry his key in Mercury Suites, so after killing him there, the player may return to Fort Frolic via Bathysphere and open the box.
 * The chest was designed by concept artist Robb Waters.
 * Although Sander Cohen's Muse Key shares the same texture as the Emergency Access Key, a golden key icon exists in BioShock's display texture files, intended for Sander Cohen's Muse Key.