Kudos
Kudos is given to players who contribute to the Varrock Museum. Several rewards are unlocked once the player has achieved enough kudos.
Members can earn a total of 235 kudos from activities through the museum, while free-to-players can only earn the five kudos from handing in ancient relics. Players can see a list of activities and check their current Kudos by right-clicking the information booth on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US].
Rewards
Kudos can only be acquired, never spent. The following rewards will be unlocked at certain thresholds:
| Kudos | Reward |
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| 51 |  1,000 Mining experience from the information clerk.
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| 100 | Access to the Bone Voyage quest, which unlocks Fossil Island. |
| 101 |  2,500 Crafting and 2,500 Mining experience from the information clerk.
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| 151 | 4,000 experience in Crafting,  Hunter,  Prayer,  Slayer, and  Smithing from the information clerk.
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| 153 | Required for the hard Varrock Diary. Grants entrance to the Digsite via the workman's gate. |
Ancient relics
Access to the Ruins of Camdozaal is granted after completion of the quest Below Ice Mountain. You can find Barronite deposits while mining in this fallen city. These can be cracked open with a hammer at the barronite crusher, requiring 14 Smithing, for a chance to uncover an ancient relic, which may be donated to Curator Haig Halen on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] of the museum. Donating a relic for the first time awards one single kudos and 200 coins, while every subsequent copy of that relic grants 100 coins. There are five relics in total, thus 5 kudos and 1,000 coins may be earned this way.
| Artefact | Kudos | |
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Ancient globe | 1 |
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Ancient ledger | 1 |
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Ancient astroscope | 1 |
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Ancient treatise | 1 |
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Ancient carcanet | 1 |
This is the only activity that is available in free-to-play.
Uncleaned finds
The southern part of the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] is partitioned off for the processing of incoming samples from the Digsite. After completion of The Dig Site, players may participate in cleaning uncleaned finds from the Digsite. Several items are required for this activity, all of which can be collected from the tool rack on the south wall in this area. Players must be wearing leather boots and gloves and have a trowel, rock pick and specimen brush in their inventory.
Players can take as many uncleaned finds from the specimen rock pile as desired, which can then be cleaned when used on an empty specimen table. Several items can be found while cleaning the finds, most of which have no value to the museum and can be kept by the player. Players can then show the artefact to one of the archaeologists in the room, who will then tell them what to do with the item. Pottery, jewellery, old chipped vases and arrowheads found here can be deposited in the storage crate in return for useful items, including a rare antique lamp that grants 500 experience in a skill of at least level 10.
The below artefacts can be shown to any archaeologist in the room. They will then tell the player to put the object in a display case, for a reward of 10 kudos. There are five such items, for a total of 50 kudos. Except for pottery, players will stop finding the artefacts that they have put on display.
| Item | Placement | Kudos | |
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Pottery | Display case 22[1] | 10 |
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Old symbol | Display case 36 | 10 |
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Ancient symbol | Display case 37 | 10 |
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Ancient coin | Display case 44 | 10 |
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Old coin | Display case 45 | 10 |
- ^ Unlike the other display cases, this case is already partially occupied.
Another item of value is the clean necklace. Once this is shown to an archaeologist, the player gains the ability to enchant ruby necklaces into Digsite pendants with the Lvl-3 Enchant spell (with Magic level 49).
Natural history quiz
The natural history exhibit is located below on the first basement floor. Here, players may talk to Orlando Smith to commence a natural history quiz about the creatures featured here. After listening to his lecture, you may answer the questions shown on each of the plaques in front of the display cases. Other natural historians can help you with solving these.
Answering at least three questions right on a plaque completes the quiz about that animal, awarding 2 kudos. There are fourteen display cases, thus a total of 28 kudos can be earned from these questions. When you have completed the natural history quiz entirely, you may talk to Orlando for an additional reward of 1,000 experience in both Slayer and Hunter, which could boost these skills from level 1 to 9.
Timeline displays
You may exchange information about several completed quests for kudos with Historian Minas, found on the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] of the museum, right next to the stairs. You may earn up to 80 kudos this way. Additionally, some of the quests award antique lamps, for a total of 18,000 experience in chosen skills.
| Quest | Display | Antique lamp (min. level) | Kudos |
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| Demon Slayer | 25 | N/A | 5 |
| Rune Mysteries | 21 | N/A | 5 |
| Shield of Arrav | 24 | 1,000 experience (level 20) | 5 |
| A Tail of Two Cats | 20 | N/A | 5 |
| Hazeel Cult | 7 | N/A | 5 |
| In Aid of the Myreque | 23 | N/A | 5 |
| Making History | 46 | 1,000 experience (level 20) | 5 |
| Merlin's Crystal | 9 | 1,000 experience (level 20) | 5 |
| Observatory Quest | 17 | N/A | 5 |
| Priest in Peril | 23 | N/A | 5 |
| Temple of Ikov | 28 | N/A | 5 |
| The Grand Tree | 10 | N/A | 5 |
| What Lies Below[1] | 3 | N/A | 5 |
| Curse of the Empty Lord | 16 | 10,000 experience (level 50) | 10 |
| Defender of Varrock | 24 | 5,000 experience (level 30) | 5 |
| Total | 18,000 experience | 80 | |
- ^ Requires the book Dagon'hai history from the Varrock Palace library.
Fossil displays
You will unlock the Bone Voyage quest after completing The Dig Site and earning at least 100 kudos. Completing this quest subsequently unlocks Fossil Island. While doing certain activities on this island, you may encounter unidentified fossils. These can be cleaned and identified on the island or in this museum. The cleaned fossils can then be added to the fossil displays on the second basement floor, the lowest floor of the museum.
Five fossils of the same type are required to complete a corresponding display. Completing a display awards 2 kudos and an antique lamp that rewards either 2,000, 3,500 or 5,000 experience in a chosen skill. There are a total of 36 displays in this exhibit, which amounts to a total of 72 kudos and 120,000 experience.
| Display type | Amount | Fossils required | Antique lamp (min. level) | Kudos | |
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Small display | 14 | 70 small fossils | 2,000 experience (level 20) | 28 |
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Medium display | 12 | 60 medium fossils | 3,500 experience (level 30) | 24 |
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Plant display | 5 | 25 large fossils (plant)[d 1] | 5,000 experience (level 35) | 10 |
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Large display | 5 | 25 large fossils (regular)[d 1] | 5,000 experience (level 35) | 10 |
| Total | 36 displays | 180 fossils | 120,000 experience | 72 | |