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'''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#Rewards|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.

The current number of kudos players have earned is displayed to the left of the [[XP Counter]] while they are in the Varrock Museum.

A player can earn a maximum of 183 kudos in the Varrock Museum activity through 4 different methods:
* by cleaning finds (50 kudos)
* by answering a quiz about museum exhibits, by speaking to [[Orlando Smith]] 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)

== 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 (uncleaned 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 pendant]]s.

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 {{Exchange:Big_bones|View=price}} coins)
*[[Bowl]] (very common, worth {{GEPrice|Bowl|n}} 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 dart]]s (each are worth {{Exchange:Iron_dart|View=price}} coins)
*[[Iron dagger]]
*[[Iron Knife]]
*[[Iron ore]] (each are worth {{Exchange:Iron ore|View=price}} coins)
*[[Iron throwing knife]] (common)
*[[Jewellery (item)|Jewellery]]
*[[Mithril ore]]
*[[Old chipped vase]]
*[[Old coin]]
*[[Old symbol]]
*[[Old tooth]]
*[[Pot]]
*[[Pottery]]
*[[Tin ore]]
*[[Vase (Digsite)|Vase]]
*[[Wooden stock]]
*[[Uncut jade]]
*[[Uncut opal]] (each are worth {{Exchange:Uncut_opal|View=price}} 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 lamp]]s 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 them.

The list of the quests for which players can earn kudos is:
*[[Defender of Varrock]] (5 kudos)
*[[Demon Slayer]] (5 kudos)
*[[Ghostly Robes (miniquest)]] (10 kudos)
*[[Glorious Memories]] (10 kudos for the real [[Prophecy tablet (Glorious Memories)|Prophecy tablet]])
**If you happen to give the '''fake''' [[Prophecy tablet (Glorious Memories)|Prophecy tablet]] you'll '''only receive 5 kudos''', but you can get the other 5 if you bring him the real tablet.
**In case you destroyed the real prophecy, talk to [[Baba Yaga]] about "astral rune" and bring an [[Unfinished astral rune]] and she will give you the [[Prophecy tablet (Glorious Memories)|Prophecy tablet]] once again.
**For the unfinished astral rune, talk to [[Chieftain Brundt]] to get it back.
*[[The Grand Tree]] (5 kudos)
*[[In Aid of the Myreque]] (5 kudos)
*[[Hazeel Cult]] (5 kudos)
*[[Making History]] (5 kudos)
*[[Meeting History]] (5 kudos)
*[[Merlin's Crystal]] (5 kudos)
*[[Observatory Quest]] (5 kudos)
*[[Priest in Peril]] (5 kudos)
*[[Rune Mysteries]] (5 kudos)
*[[Shield of Arrav]] (5 kudos)
*[[A Tail of Two Cats]] (5 kudos)
*[[Temple of Ikov]] (5 kudos)
*[[What Lies Below]] (5 kudos) (for the [[Dagon'hai history]] book; a copy of the book can be found in the Varrock library or in a POH's bookcases)
Completing these quests will grant the player a total of 95 kudos.

==Dahmaroc statue==

Completing the [[Dahmaroc statue]] built for the [[Shattered Heart]] [[Distractions and Diversions|Distraction and Diversion]] for the first time earns a player 10 kudos.

==Trivia==

*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 [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Starved_ancient_effigy effigy] or jewellery, they say "Thank you, but I don't need that."

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