Museum officials have understandably asked people to stop and are reportedly working to get the location removed from the game.
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“Technology can be an important learning tool, but this game falls far outside of our educational and memorial mission”.
A spokesman for the US Holocaust museum based in Washington said that playing the game whilst visiting the memorial to victims of Nazism was “extremely inappropriate”.
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, which combats anti-Semitism, told USA Today that it was inappropriate to trivialize a site where Jews and other people were killed.
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.
Niantic has run into trouble with Holocaust memorial sites before.
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.
The museum is one of the many places where players can come across Pokemon, but it is also a Pokestop where players can collect virtual items like food and medicine for their Pokemon.
Pokemon Go has completely taken over the mobile gaming space, but we’re quickly finding out that some places aren’t exactly appropriate locations to “catch them all”. PokeStops could also be a major reason why the museum, and even the cemetery, is attracting great attention from Pokemon masters around town.
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As many readers already know, Pokemon GO is a game that requires players to be on the move, searching for challenges and loot, with the main goal of the game having users catch as many Pokemon as possible and train them to become stronger.
