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”.
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The virtual reality game allows players to catch virtual creatures in a real-world semi virtual reality on their phones. While the game has inadvertently caused many people to exercise as they hunt for eevee, pidgey and rattata, the game has also caused many people to forget their surroundings.
He said the museum is trying to get its location permanently removed from the game. Officials at both places are now trying to get themselves removed from the game’s list.
If it wasn’t bad enough that people were playing Pokemon Go at Holocaust museums, the gaming craze has now required a prohibition by the most infamous death camp of Nazi Germany.
On Tuesday, Arlington Cemetery tweeted, “We do not consider playing “Pokemon Go” to be appropriate decorum on the grounds of ANC”.
Like many other landmarks, both the museum in Washington and the military cemetery in Virginia are places where players can come across Pokemon creatures. On the other hand, this can result in Pokemon spawning in rather inappropriate locations, and one image that was posted online, showing a Pokemon located just outside the Helena Rubinstein Auditorium has sparked a lot of concerns.
The message posted on social media follows concerns from curators at museums around the world.
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Unfortunately, it appears the museum in the US capital, like many other public locations, is designated as a PokeStop within the game – a place where players can stock up on in-game supplies. The app has yet to officially launch in Europe-it seems as though someone downloaded the app in the States, and opened it in Europe-and one can only hope this issue will be resolved before it becomes widely available. And the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles, and Ground Zero memorial, are PokéStops.
