Kudos

Kudos are reward points for helping the staff in the Varrock Museum. You receive experience points for various skills for accumulating certain amounts of kudos, as explained at Varrock Museum's rewards. Also, you will need 100 kudos to join a planned dig on an island north of Morytania, although the barge to go to the island has not been finished yet. To complete The Temple at Senntisten a player needs 125 kudos. Kudos also play a role in the Varrock Tasks, where achieving 153 kudos is one of the Hard tasks, and achieving 50 is an Easy task.

A player can earn a maximum of 198 kudos in the Varrock Museum activity through 5 different methods:
 * by cleaning finds (50 kudos)
 * by answering a quiz about museum exhibits, by speaking to Orlando Smith (or Mark Brodie, who is found at the same location, if you have completed The World Wakes) in the basement and reading the plaques on the exhibits (28 kudos)
 * by relating details of certain completed quests to Historian Minas (currently 95 kudos)
 * by completing the Dahmaroc statue for the first time (10 kudos)
 * by completing dragonkin related quests and tasks and talking to Mr. Mordaut (15 kudos)

As of 17 June 2013, players can speak to the Information clerk on the ground floor of the Varrock Museum to receive suggestions on how to receive more Kudos.

Cleaning finds
One way to earn kudos is by cleaning finds from the Digsite, found in the roped-off area of the museum, not the Digsite itself. In order to do this, you must have first completed The Dig Site quest. You must also be wearing leather gloves and leather boots, and have a trowel, a rock pick, and a specimen brush. All can be obtained from the tool rack on the south wall in the museum.

To clean a find, take a Dig Site specimen rock from the pile on the floor to the east just inside the roped-off area. Then Use the uncleaned find on one of the unused specimen tables. Usually this will result in some sort of item in your inventory (once in a great while the rock simply crumbles into dust).

If you find pottery, an ancient symbol, an old symbol, an ancient coin, or an old coin, show it to one of the NPCs working on the other specimen tables, they will instruct you which display case it should go in (or see the table in "Uncleaned find") and you will earn 10 museum kudos points. Notice that if you find more than one of each item, only the first instance goes in the display case and earns kudos; subsequent items can be placed in the storage crates. The chances of getting a Kudos related item is totally random and may take some time.

Other artefacts such as old chipped vases and arrowheads can be traded for prizes in the storage crates. Most of these prizes have some gold value, one notable exception is the antique lamp which grants 500 or 1,000 experience points to a skill over level 20 of your choice.

If you find jewellery and give it to any archaeologist, you will receive 5 coins. However, since nearly everything you receive in trade from the storage crates is worth more than 5 coins, giving it to an archaeologist is not useful.

You can also find the cleaned necklace while cleaning finds for kudos, show this to one of the archaeologists and he will teach you how to enchant ruby necklaces to create digsite pendants.

These are the prizes you can get by placing items in the storage crates:
 * Ancient coin
 * Antique lamp (500-1000xp)
 * Arrowtips
 * Big bones (common, each are worth coins)
 * Bowl (very common, worth coins)
 * Black med helm
 * Broken arrow
 * Broken glass
 * Broken staff
 * Bronze bar
 * Bronze limbs (common)
 * Buttons (unpolished)
 * Clue scroll (level 1)
 * Coal
 * Coins
 * Copper ore
 * Crushed gem
 * Empty pot
 * Iron arrowtips (Common)
 * Iron bolts
 * 20-47 Iron darts (each are worth coins)
 * Iron dagger
 * Iron knife
 * Iron ore (each are worth coins)
 * Iron throwing knife (common)
 * Jewellery
 * Mithril ore
 * Old chipped vase
 * Old coin
 * Old symbol
 * Old tooth
 * Pot
 * Pottery
 * Tin ore
 * Vase
 * Wooden stock
 * Uncut jade
 * Uncut opal (each are worth coins)
 * Uncut ruby

This list may be incomplete.

The player can earn 50 kudos through this service.

Exhibit Quizzes
The easiest way to earn kudos is to go into the museum's lower floor, and answer the natural history quiz questions on various creatures in RuneScape. This can provide 2 kudos for each correctly answered set of 3 questions for a total of 28.

Completing Quests
If players relate the tale of how they completed certain quests to Historian Minas (found on the first floor), they earn kudos, as well as Antique lamps which give 1,000 experience or 10,000 in a skill of the players' choice. If players completed these quests before the Kudos system was in place, they can still speak to him and receive the kudos owed to them.

The list of the quests for which players can earn kudos is: Completing these quests will grant the player a total of 95 kudos.

Dahmaroc statue
Completing the Dahmaroc statue built for the Shattered Heart Distraction and Diversion for the first time earns a player 10 kudos.

Mr. Mordaut
Mr. Mordaut can be found in his office under the stairs in basement. Talking with him about the dragonkin can result in kudos gain as well as receiving one 25k slayer dragonkin lamp. To earn the rewards player must complete A Tail of Two Cats and Ritual of the Mahjarrat (5 kudos), kill the King Black Dragon or obtain Last riders (5 kudos), and defeat the Queen Black Dragon (5 kudos). The xp lamp is received after all these tasks are completed.

Talking with Mr. Mordaut will grant the player a total of 15 kudos.

Trivia
Kudos
 * If you had max Kudos before Defender of Varrock and then went to max them once again after the release of Defender of Varrock you would get five extra kudos and a 1000 experience lamp.
 * If you offer one of the archaeologists anything besides pottery, ancient symbol, old symbol, ancient coin, old coin, an effigy or jewellery, they say "Thank you, but I don't need that."