The Pokémon Firm has introduced that it’s going to maintain a pop-up store in London’s Pure Historical past Museum.
A free ticket might be required to attend the occasion. These fascinated by attending the occasion can join now to be notified when tickets turn into obtainable on October 1.
The occasion will run from 26 January 2026 till 22 March 2026 and can embody unique merchandise akin to clothes, stationery, equipment, prints, and a brand-new unique plush.
Adam Farrar, director of economic and customer expertise for the Pure Historical past Museum, stated: “There’s such an exquisite alignment between Pokémon and the Pure Historical past Museum – we’re clearly each large followers of the pure world and its evolution and variety. We hope this collaboration will spark pleasure and curiosity within the creatures round us, each on the earth of Pokémon and Earth”.
In keeping with The Pokémon Firm and the Pure Historical past Museum, all earnings from purchases made within the store and on-line retailer, together with Pokémon merchandise, help the Museum’s charitable mission, which incorporates the work of 400 scientists conducting analysis and discovering options to the planetary emergency.
Choose merchandise from the vary may even be made obtainable on-line by way of The Pokémon Heart UK.
Notably, it seems that there received’t be any Pokémon Buying and selling Card merchandise on the pop-up store, doubtless on account of earlier pop-up occasions held at museums.
In 2023, The Pokémon Firm kicked off a collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The collaboration was initially launched in September 2023, with objects that includes Pokémon characters designed in a post-impressionist type occurring sale within the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Nevertheless, on the primary day of sale the museum was besieged by swarms of scalpers all trying to purchase the merchandise and resell it on-line.
24 hours after the objects went on sale on the museum, the restricted version Van Gogh merchandise went on sale by way of the web Pokémon retailer. Nevertheless, moments after they went stay on the market, the preferred objects instantly bought out, with public sale websites shortly filling up with listings at inflated costs.
The incidents led to The Pokémon Firm issuing an apology, with all of the merchandise – each on the museum itself and on-line – promoting out inside a day of launch.
