16-05-2025
Pokémon: What's the dinosaur inspiration behind your favourite?
If you are a Pokémon fan you can play the video games, watch them on TV, or trade them as cards - and now you can see them in a museum too. There are more than 1,000 different Pokémon, all in different shapes, sizes and styles. But do you know what sparked their incredible designs?For many of them, it is dinosaurs and an famous exhibition teaching people all about some of the ancient inspiration for the Pokémon is on the move.
The Pokémon Fossil Museum is a learning experience that puts models of some of your favourite characters side-by-side with real extinct casts of dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex are alongside the Pokémon they inspired - in this case Archeops next to the archaeopteryx - the oldest known people the chance to learn about the history of the real world too.
The exhibition started in the home of Pokémon - Japan - and has been travelling around the it's taking a trip outside the country for the first time, to Chicago's Field Museum in the those that don't have their own Lapras (like a plesiosaur, btw) to surf them there - there is the option of an online virtual tour of the exhibition too!What Pokémon would you like to see at the exhibition? Which one do in you think has the best design? Let us know in the comments.
