Holocaust Museum: Stop Catching Pokemon Here

Nearly everywhere you turn, it seems like people have their eyes glued to smartphone screens playing Pokemon Go.

Pokémon Go has swept the nation, as eager players journey from location to location trying their best to catch their favorite digital creatures.

The National Holocaust Museum is quite possibly one of the most painful experiences anyone can have at a museum.

You can catch Pokemon nearly anywhere while playing Pokemon Go, but the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum would really like people to stop doing it in their building.

Pokemon Go allows players to “travel between the real world and the virtual world”, where they find and catch different Pokémon species.

“Playing Pokémon Go in a memorial dedicated to the victim of Nazism is extremely inappropriate”, Andrew Hollinger, the museum’s director of communications, told EW.

“We encourage visitors to use their phones to share and engage with museum content while here”, Hollinger said. There are three “PokéStops” within the museum, The Post reported. It wasn’t clear if the image was a hoax, according to the Post.

Although the museum is uncomfortable with its Pokemon infestation, most of the players building up their digital critter collection inside the building at least didn’t seem to mean any disrespect.

On Monday, players reportedly tagged the museum with a “lure beacon” aimed at attracted Pokémon such as the two-headed birdlike Doduos and Rattatas, which as you may have inferred, resemble rats.

“It’s not like we came here to play”, said Angie, a 37-year-old member of Dustin’s group who also declined to share her last name for privacy reasons, “But gotta catch ’em all”.

“We do not consider playing “Pokemon Go” to be appropriate decorum on the grounds of ANC”, the military cemetery posted on Twitter.

If a player really did encounter a Koffing inside the museum, it seems unlikely that Niantic Labs- the developers behind the game – would have made it show up there on goal.