The Pokémon Fossil Museum Is Bringing Real and Fake Pokémon Fossils to the U.S. Next Year

The Pokémon Company has confirmed the Pokémon Fossil Museum is coming to North America successful May 2026.

If you're wondering what connected world the Pokémon Fossil Museum is, it's… well, it's precisely what it says connected the tin. After its debut successful Japan, this peculiar exhibition, which compares fabricated Pokémon "fossils" with "ancient lifeforms recovered successful real-world fossils," is coming to Chicago's Field Museum connected May 22, 2026. It'll beryllium the archetypal clip the accumulation travels beyond Japan.

"During your visit, you’ll spot vibrant Pokémon models broadside by broadside with extinct lifeforms from the Field Museum’s postulation — including technological casts of Field Museum dinosaurs similar SUE the T. rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx adjacent to Fossil Pokémon similar Tyrantrum and Archeops," explained the museum. "How galore differences (and similarities) volition you spot, Trainers?"

If you're inactive excessively acold distant from some Japan and Chicago to visit, don't hide that The Pokémon Company and Toyohashi Museum of Natural History person made it imaginable to spot the Pokémon Fossil Museum from the comfortableness of your ain home. Pokémon fans tin present instrumentality a virtual circuit astir the grounds to spot the postulation of existent and Pokémon fossils, from a tyrannosaurus to a Tyrantrum.

In related Pokémon news, earlier contiguous we reported that a antheral successful the UK had been arrested aft constabulary discovered helium was harboring a cache of stolen Pokémon cards worthy £250,000 (approx. $332,500). The hoard was discovered aft Greater Manchester Police raided a location successful Hyde, Tameside, connected the outskirts of Greater Manchester. A constabulary spokesperson joked: "Gotta drawback 'em all."

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