Adventure List

🧭 Captain Quackers' Adventure List

Museums to explore, ducks to rescue, stories to uncover, people to meet, and more than a few wonderfully ridiculous adventures await along the way.

Some are serious museum milestones. Some are once-in-a-lifetime dreams. And some are here simply because Captain Quackers thinks they would be fun.

Every completed adventure becomes another story in the Explorer Log.

How many can we complete?

Legend: ☐ Adventure waiting · ✅ Adventure completed · ⭐ Major milestone

The museum updates these checkmarks as adventures are completed.

EXPLORE & ADVENTURE

Places to go, things to experience, and memories to make.

☐ Ride a train
☐ Visit a National Park
✅ Visit a state fair
☐ Visit a children's museum
☐ Visit the world's largest rubber duck

☐ Attend a rubber duck race
☐ Visit a duck-themed festival
✅ Visit Disney World
☐ Visit every Wisconsin county
☐ Visit all 50 states

DUCK MISSIONS

Field assignments worthy of the museum's Chief Curator & Adventure Officer.

☐ Find a historically important duck in an unexpected place

✅ Rescue a museum-worthy duck from a thrift store

☐ Discover an unknown rubber-duck advertisement

☐ Track down a duck seen only in an old photograph

☐ Visit the former site of a historic rubber-toy factory

☐ Meet someone who manufactured rubber toys

☐ Examine an original rubber-duck mold

☐ Visit an archive in search of duck history

☐ Reunite an unidentified duck with its maker

☐ Solve one of the Research Desk's open investigations

COLLECT THE STORIES

Because the objects matter—and so do the people behind them.

☐ Tell 100 duck stories
☐ Record 100 visitor memories
☐ Interview a duck collector
✅ Interview a rubber-duck designer or maker
☐ Document a firsthand manufacturing story

☐ Find the oldest family duck still treasured by its owner
☐ Discover the story behind a mysterious vintage duck
☐ Publish a Duck of the Month series
☐ Write Captain Quackers' first adventure book
☐ Preserve a rubber-duck story that otherwise might have been lost

COLLECT & DISCOVER

Ducks to find, mysteries to solve, and history to preserve.

☐ Catalog every duck in the DuckDex
☐ Find a duck from every U.S. state
☐ Find a duck from every continent
☐ Add 25 Disney ducks
☐ Find the oldest duck in the collection

☐ Discover the funniest duck
☐ Rescue a duck with an incredible backstory
☐ Receive a duck donation from a stranger
☐ Receive a duck donation from another country
☐ Document the history of a previously unidentified duck

CONNECT & SHARE

Growing a community around curiosity, ducks, and museum discovery.

✅ Reach 100 followers
☐ Reach 1,000 followers
☐ Reach 10,000 followers
☐ Share 100 adventures
☐ Create 100 videos

☐ Be featured in the local news
☐ Collaborate with another museum
☐ Meet another duck collector
☐ Inspire someone to visit because of Captain Quackers
☐ Deliver smiles to 1,000 people

BUILD THE MUSEUM

Milestones on the journey from one duck to a museum.

✅ Build the museum website
✅ Publish the first DuckDex entry
☐ Reach 100 DuckDex entries
☐ Reach 1,000 DuckDex entries
☐ Open a pop-up exhibit
☐ Host the first museum event

☐ Welcome the museum's first visitor
☐ Design Captain Quackers' first collectible duck
☐ Open the museum gift shop
☐ Cut the ribbon on opening day
⭐ ☐ Open the doors to The American Rubber Duck Museum

CAPTAIN'S BUCKET LIST

Some adventures are too good not to try.

☐ Meet a giraffe
☐ Meet a penguin
☐ Drive a tractor
☐ Sit in a fire truck
☐ Tour a police station
✅ Fly on an airplane
✅ Meet a celebrity
☐ Meet a professional sports-team mascot
☐ Ride on a ferry
☐ Take a boat tour

☐ Float at the Atlantic shore
☐ Watch the sunrise over Lake Michigan
☐ Visit a butterfly conservatory
☐ Ride a Ferris wheel
☐ Visit the largest pumpkin festival I can find
☐ Meet Santa Claus
☐ Celebrate my birthday with museum friends
☐ Read stories to children at a library
☐ Visit a children's hospital and spread smiles

IMPOSSIBLE MISSIONS

They might sound impossible. Captain Quackers thinks that makes them worth trying.

☐ Ring the opening bell at a stock exchange
☐ Meet a U.S. President — past or present
☐ Throw out the first pitch at an MLB game
☐ Ride in a parade
☐ Be featured on national television
☐ Help break a world record

☐ Visit another rubber duck museum
☐ Have a photo taken at all 50 state capitols
☐ Have Captain Quackers represented in a major museum collection

🏆 ☐ Have The American Rubber Duck Museum recognized as a nationally significant collection of rubber-duck history

✅Every Checkmark Has a Story

Completing the list isn't really the point.

Every adventure gives Captain Quackers—and the museum—a chance to meet someone, discover something, preserve a memory, investigate a question, or simply bring a little joy into the world.

As adventures are completed, look for the ✅. Whenever possible, completed goals will link to their Explorer Log entry so you can discover what happened along the way.

Somewhere out there, the next adventure is already waiting.

Where Should Captain Quackers Go Next?

Know a museum, historic site, duck-related destination, event, collection, research lead, or wonderfully strange place Captain Quackers should investigate?

Send us a mission suggestion.

SUGGEST AN ADVENTURE

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