OSRS Varrock Museum Kudos Guide: Fastest Quests For Kudos

Varrock Museum Kudos are given to players who contribute to the Varrock Museum by providing useful information from certain quests, finding uncleaned, answering the natural history quiz, and adding fossils to displays. Players can get a maximum of 235 kudos from all these activities.

Uses of Varrock Museum Kudos

Getting Kudos in the Varrock Museum unlocks various rewards and access to new content in OSRS. Here are the main uses:

• Bone Voyage quest (access to Fossil Island): 100 kudos are required to do the Bone Voyage quest to access Fossil Island which offers unique training methods such as Ammonite crabs, the Volcanic mine, and birdhouse runs.
• Experience Lamps: several experience lamps are awarded while getting Varrock Museum kudos.
• Completion of easy and hard Varrock diaries: At least 50 kudos and 153 kudos are required for the easy and hard Varrock diaries, respectively.

Cleaning Uncleaned Finds

Cleaning uncleaned finds in the southern part of the Museum’s ground floor is one of the fastest ways to get kudos. Players must first complete the Digsite quest before they are allowed to clean the uncleaned finds. Several items are required to clean uncleaned finds, which can be collected from the tool rack on the south wall, shown below. 

The items required include:

• Leather boots
• Leather gloves
• Trowel
• Rock pick
• Specimen brush.

After getting the required items, players can take many uncleaned finds from the specimen rock by clicking on it. They can be cleaned by using them on the empty specimen table. Some important items listed below can be found when the finds are cleaned. The other items have no value and should be dropped. If you find any important item, show it to one of the archaeologists, who will tell you the right display to place it. Players can get a total of 50 kudos for placing these items in the right displays.

Here are the items players can find, the right display to place them, and the Kudos to expect 

• Pottery: Should be placed in Display case 22 and grant 10 kudos
• Old symbol: Should be placed in Display case 36 and grant 10 kudos
• Ancient symbol: Should be placed in Display case 37 and grant 10 kudos
• Ancient coin: Should be placed in Display case 44 and grant 10 kudos
• Old coin: Should be placed in Display case 45 and grant 10 kudos

Timeline Display

Players can exchange information from completed quests for Kudos with Historian Minas on the 1st floor of the Varrock museum, as shown below. Each quest gives 5 kudos except the Curse of the Empty Lord quest which gives 10 kudos, for a total of 80 kudos. Some quests award antique lamps for a total of 18,000 XP in a selected skill. 

• Demon Slayer:
• Rune Mysteries
• Shield of Arrav: gives 1,000 XP in any skill above level 20
• A Tail of Two Cats
• Hazeel Cult
• In Aid of the Myreque
• Making history: gives 1,000 XP in any skill above level 20
• Merlin’s Crystal: gives 1,000 XP in any skill above level 20
• Observatory Quest
• Priest in Peril
• Temple of Ikov
• The Grand Tree
• What lies Below
• Curse of the Empty Lord: gives 10,000 XP in any skill above level 50
• Defender of Varrock: gives 5,000 XP in any skill above level 30

Fastest quests for Kudos

If you are trying to get Kudos as quickly as possible, here is a list of the fastest quests to complete for Kudos:

• Demon Slayer
• Rune Mysteries
• Shield of Arrav: gives 1,000 XP in any skill above level 20
• A Tail of Two Cats
• Hazeel Cult
• Making history: gives 1,000 XP in any skill above level 20
• Merlin’s Crystal: gives 1,000 XP in any skill above level 20
• Observatory Quest
• Priest in Peril
• Temple of Ikov
• The Grand Tree
• What lies Below

This gives a total of 60 kudos

Natural History Quiz

The natural history quiz consists of 3 questions about 14 creature displays which must be answered correctly to earn 2 kudos each for a total of 28. Players can start the quiz by speaking to Orlando Smith, located in the centre of the basement floor. After speaking to Orlando Smith, click on the plaque in front of a display to get 3 questions. If the questions are answered correctly, the player will be awarded 2 kudos, and the quiz questions will be replaced by the common and scientific name of the animal. 

It is highly recommended that players use RuneLite as it highlights the answers to all questions.

Rewards from the Natural History Quiz

After all the questions are answered correctly, speak to Orlando again to receive 1000 XP in Hunter and Slayer.

Fossil Displays

This requires the completion of the Bone Voyage quest for access to Fossil Island, where you may find unidentified fossils when doing certain activities. These fossils can be cleaned and identified on the island or in the Varrock museum, after which they can be added to fossil displays on the second basement floor, the lowest floor of the museum.

To complete a display, players need 5 fossils of the same type. Each fossil added grants 2 kudos and an antique lamp, which awards 2,000, 3,500, or 5,000 XP in any skill of the player’s choice. With 36 displays in the exhibit, players can earn up to 72 kudos and a total of 120,000 XP

• Small display: 14 small displays require 70 small fossils. Each completed display gives 2 kudos and 2,000 XP for any chosen skill above 20, for a total of 28,000 XP and 28 kudos
• Medium display: 12 medium displays require 60 medium fossils. Each completed display gives 2 kudos and 3,500 XP for any chosen skill above 30, for a total of 42,000 XP and 24 kudos.
• Plant display: 5 small displays require 25 large fossils. Each completed display gives 2 kudos and 5,000 XP for skills above 35, for a total of 28,000 XP and 10 kudos
• Large display: 5 large displays require 25 large fossils. Each completed display gives 2 kudos and 5,000 XP for skills above 35, for a total of 25,000 XP and 10 kudos

These results in a total of 36 displays, 180 fossils, 120,000 XP, and 72 kudos.

Ancient Relics

This requires the completion of the Below the Ice Mountain quest to gain access to the Ruins of Camdozaal. Five relics can be found when Barronite deposits are cracked open with a hammer at the Barronite crusher, requiring 14 smithing. Barronite deposits are found while mining in the Ruins of Camdozal, each granting 32 mining XP. Donating a relic gives one kudos and 200 coins, while a subsequent copy of that relic grants 100 coins.

• Ancient globe
• Ancient ledger
• Ancient astroscope
• Ancient treatise
• Ancient carcanet