Did you realize that there’s a pure historical past exhibition fully devoted to Pokémon?
Well sure, our beloved Pokémon are creatures stuffed with mysteries. Do you suppose that a few of them will be woke up from their “fossil” state like Kabuto, Omanyte e Aerodactyl belonging to the primary technology, simply to call a couple of.
To dig deep and attempt to make clear these mysteries, the Pokémon Fossil Museum, a touring exhibition all through Japan, which has fossil Pokémon as its focus, which develop into the protagonists of a single paleontological academic expertise.
Thanks to this expertise, born from the collaboration between National Museum of Nature and Science e The Pokémon Company guests have the chance to check Fossil Pokémon with the same prehistoric life kind that really existed and from which the creators of The Pokémon Company drew inspiration.
During this journey guests will probably be accompanied by “Professor Fossil” and the mascot Pikachu, who for the event takes on the position of a miner. These “digital” guides will work alongside the “flesh and blood” guides, offering assist in evaluating the fossils of the “two worlds”: the actual and the Pokémon one.
But let’s examine collectively now the place this initiative comes from.
Il Pokémon Fossil Museum was first proposed by Daisuke Aruba, a senior researcher of the Mikasa City Museum, who in an interview said that since he was a baby he has all the time cherished Pokémon and paleontology. From there was born the thought of introducing youthful folks to paleontology by the usage of the Pokémon world.
The first cease of this exhibition was proper on the Mikasa City Museum in Hokkaido in July 2021.
From that stage onwards, the exhibition continued to journey to the varied pure historical past museums in Japan.
To date there are 9 levels in complete, the final one is at present positioned on the Kumamoto Mifune Dinosaur Museum from March 2024 till June 2024.
A powerful level of this exhibition is to offer for every stage a set of Pokémon on show which varies every time, guaranteeing an all the time completely different expertise.
The sore level is that sadly the explanatory panels of the exhibition report the knowledge solely in Japanese, which makes quick understanding slightly tough.
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Each new stage of the touring museum is widely known with the creation of a Poké Run particular which is positioned within the metropolis internet hosting the exhibition.
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Given the success of this occasion, a brand new one was made accessible in July 2022 digital tour which will be carried out on-line, to additionally permit all those that can not journey to Japan to take part remotely on this exhibition.
Given the large engaging energy of the model The Pokémon Company, in your opinion, may there be any advert hoc merchandising lacking for the event? Of course not!
In reality, there’s a whole line of devices devoted to the Pokémon Fossil Museum which may sadly solely be bought in Japan.
If you need to keep up to date on the subsequent levels of the Pokémon Fossil Museum seek the advice of the official hyperlink beneath:
Until subsequent time!
Laura Villa
(IG: @la_casa_di_pikachu)