The Pokémon Company has exciting news for fans in North America: the Pokémon Fossil Museum is set to arrive in May 2026. This unique exhibition, which first debuted in Japan, will make its international debut at Chicago's Field Museum starting May 22, 2026. The exhibit showcases a fascinating comparison between fabricated Pokémon "fossils" and real-world ancient lifeforms found in fossils.
Visitors to the Field Museum will have the opportunity to see vibrant Pokémon models displayed alongside extinct lifeforms from the museum's collection. This includes scientific casts of notable Field Museum dinosaurs like SUE the T. rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx, which will be juxtaposed with Fossil Pokémon such as Tyrantrum and Archeops. The museum invites visitors to explore and note the differences and similarities between these ancient creatures and their Pokémon counterparts.
Pokémon Fossil Museum Virtual Tour
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For those unable to travel to Japan or Chicago, The Pokémon Company and Toyohashi Museum of Natural History have collaborated to offer a virtual tour of the Pokémon Fossil Museum. This allows fans worldwide to explore the exhibit from the comfort of their own homes, viewing both real and Pokémon fossils, including a tyrannosaurus alongside a Tyrantrum.
In other Pokémon-related news, a man in the UK was recently arrested after police discovered a cache of stolen Pokémon cards valued at £250,000 (approximately $332,500) during a raid in Hyde, Tameside, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester. A police spokesperson humorously remarked, "Gotta catch 'em all," in reference to the popular Pokémon slogan.