Kudos

Kudos are reward points for helping the staff in the Varrock Museum. You received 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. Kudos also play a role in the Varrock Achievement Diary, where achieving 153 kudos is one of Hard tasks.

You can earn a maximum of 163 kudos in the Varrock Museum minigame. You can also earn additional kudos for completing some quests: Meeting History earns 5 kudos and Defender of Varrock also earns 5 kudos.

In common use kudos are tokens of recognition.

There are 3 different ways for earning kudos in the museum: by cleaning finds, by taking quizzes on museum exhibits, and by telling Historian Minas about certain quests that you have completed.

Cleaning finds
One way to earn kudos is by cleaning finds from the Digsite. In order to do this, you must have first completed The Digsite quest. There are 5 artifacts in total that you can clean in order to earn kudos. Other useless artifacts such as pots and old arrow tips can be traded for prizes in the artifact boxes. Most of these prizes are worthless except for the antique lamps which grant 1,000 experience points to a skill of your choice.

Also, for every old Jewellery you find and give to any archeologist, you will receive 5 coins.

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

these are the prizes you can get by placing items on the artifact boxes:
 * Bronze Limbs
 * Iron Dagger
 * Uncut Jade
 * Wooden Stock
 * Iron Ore
 * Mithril Ore
 * Iron Bolts
 * Iron Throwing Knife
 * Empty Pot
 * Big Bones
 * Iron Dart
 * A Bowl
 * Coins
 * Coal
 * Iron arrowtips
 * Tin Ore
 * Copper Ore

Note: this list is still incomplete

Monster/Animal Exhibits
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 3 questions if answered correctly for a total of 28.

Completing Quests
If you relate the tale of how you completed certain Quests to Historian Minas (found on the second floor) you will also earn Kudos (5 for each individual quest and 10 for completing the Ghostly robes (miniquest)) as well as Antique lamps which give 1,000 experience or 10,000 in the skill of your choice.

An incomplete list of the quests for which you can earn kudos is:
 * Shield of Arrav
 * A Tail of Two Cats
 * Shadow of the Storm for a description of the sword Silverlight
 * Rune Mysteries
 * Merlin's Crystal
 * What Lies Below for the Dagon'hai history book (you need it in your inventory when you talk to him before he will add any information about it to the display. You can find a copy of the book in the Varrock library or in your POH's bookcases).
 * Demon Slayer
 * Temple of Ikov
 * The Grand Tree
 * Hazeel Cult
 * Priest in Peril
 * Ghostly robes (miniquest)
 * Observatory Quest
 * The Dig Site
 * Making History
 * Meeting History
 * In Aid of the Myreque
 * Defender of Varrock
 * Legends Quest

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