The assistant curator will give you a painting with a message saying someone wants to meet you at the museum. Its the curator gives you the key to the house in the countryside.
You go to the inspector's house - the key unlocks the door.
You now have a key that fits a lock on Counterfeit Island, and you haven't found a key to the lock on the Inspector's house, so...
You use the key from the Curator to unlock the Inspector's house in the CountrySide.
you go to early poptropica, and go inside the gray art place. there you talk to the lady in purple and get a key. the key goes to the locked house back in counterfeit island.
The big house on the country side.
Once you get the key from the curator, go back to Counterfeit island and use it at the Inspector's house.
go farther in the island until u get a key (ps the key goes in the door)
There is no key to the chest, and it never opens. It is a distraction.
She warns you that there is a notorious thief at work on Counterfeit Island, and gives you the key to the Inspector's house in the Country Side.
go farther in the island until u get a key (ps the key goes in the door)
Go back to Counterfeit Island and use it to open the Inspector's house in the Country Side. On the way, the street artist gives you a clue as to what to look for in the house.
You get the key late in the game, after the activities of the first night. You do not have to look for it.