Like many other landmarks, both the museum in Washington and the military cemetery in Virginia are places where players can come across Pokemon creatures.
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Another visitor told The Post they didn’t go to the museum intending to catch Pokemon, and meant no disrespect using the app at the PokeStops inside the building.
In a statement, communications director for the Holocaust museum Andrew Hollinger said playing the game inside a memorial to victims of the Nazi regime was “extremely inappropriate”.
Within days of its release, the Pokemon Go app has become the top-selling app on the iPhone as well as on Android, beating old favourites such as Tinder.
Niantic’s first game, another augmented-reality app called Ingress, exists in Europe, and Pokemon Go uses information from that app to inform its digitally enhanced world.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland says it is not allowing people to play “Pokemon Go” on their smartphones during visits to the former Nazi German death camp because it is “disrespectful on many levels”.
The Holocaust Museum is trying to remove itself from the game entirely.
Pokemon are making appearances in all sorts of unusual places, from people’s places of employment to churches, police stations and even museums.
“We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game”.
There is a snap surfacing online showing a player’s screen cap of “Pokemon Go” monster, named Coffing, which is resting in front of Holocaust Museum’s Helena Rubinstein Auditorium.
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According to the BBC, game developers Niantic Labs are yet to respond to their pleas of removing the locations from the game. With that being said, we can assume that the large majority of visitors are responsible enough – on their own – to avoid inappropriate behavior.
