When Paleontology Meets Pokémon, at the Field Museum
Nearly 30 fossil sculptures pair with real fossils and casts as the museum uses Pokémon to draw younger visitors to paleontology.
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Pokemon fossil exhibition opens at Chicago museum, the first time it’s been displayed outside Japan
The Pokemon Fossil Museum, an exhibition featuring real fossils as well as sculptures of fossil creatures found in the Pokemon games, opened at Chicago's Field Museum Friday.
Two heavyweights from different eras combine in the Field’s newest exhibition: Pokémon Fossil Museum
You could almost see a tear trickle from Sue’s craggy eye socket and, in a croaky roar, hear the 67-million-year-old T. rex say: “Am I not enough?”Perhaps not in this era.The Field Museum’s superstar — along with a sampling of other ancient life forms — is being paired with a celebrity behemoth born in the late 20th Century: Pokémon. Guests preview the new Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition at the Field Museum.Candace Dane Chambers/Sun-Times Pokém…
‘Pokémon Fossil’ Exhibit At Field Museum Combines Paleontology and Pop Culture
MUSEUM CAMPUS—For more than 130 years, Chicago’s Field Museum has been enlightening the public about the incredible diversity found among the natural world and in human culture. Now it embraces an evolution of its own — with the opening of the eagerly anticipated “Pokémon Fossil Museum” this weekend. The institution famous for “Evolving Planet,” the Grainger Hall of Gems and the Pawnee Earth Lodge is now programming this Pokémon-themed special e…
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