The Pokémon Company and several museums in Japan including the Mikasa City Museum and the National Museum of Nature and Science have joined forces to create the Pokémon Fossil Museum (ポケモン化石博物館) exhibition! The exhibition will be held at the Mikasa City Museum in the summer of 2021, and then travel around Japan! The exhibition will be held at the National Museum of Nature and Science in the Spring of 2022! Press release pictures have been added to an Imageboard thread.

This exhibition was created by Daisuke Aiba (相場大佑) of the Mikasa City Museum, and the efforts of the museum, other museums, and The Pokémon Company. The theme of the exhibition is Fossils and Fossil Pokémon from the popular game series Pokémon and fossils and paleontology found in our world. While experiencing the basic scientific methods of observation and comparison, visitors can discover the shapes and ecology of these creatures, as well as the similarities and differences between fossil research in each world, and learn about paleontology while having fun.

What is the Pokémon Fossil Museum?

Some of the mysterious Pokémon that appear in the popular game series Pokémon are known to be resurrected from fossils, therefore being known as Fossil Pokémon.

In this exhibit, visitors can enjoy learning about paleontology by comparing the Fossil Pokémon with fossils and paleontology found in our real world and discover the similarities and differences.

Be sure to take a tour of the exhibition, guided by Professor Kaseki (Fossil Professor カセキ博士) from the Pokémon world with their assistant Excavation Pikachu (発掘ピカチュウ), and compare the fossils of the Pokémon world and our world!

Mikasa City Museum (三笠市立博物館)

Exhibition Period: July 4th, 2021 until September 20th, 2021
Venue: Mikasa City Museum (1-212-1, Nishikicho, Ikharubetsu, Mikasa City, Hokkaido)
Opening hours: 9:00 - 17:00 (last admission 16:30)
Closed on Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a national holiday)

Shimane Nature Museum of Mt. Sanbe Sahimel (島根県立三瓶自然館サヒメル)

Exhibition Period: Autumn 2021
Venue: Shimane Nature Museum of Mt. Sanbe Sahimel (1121-8 Tane, Sanbei-cho, Ota City, Shimane Prefecture)
Opening hours: 9:30 - 17:00
Closed on Tuesdays (or the following day if Tuesday is a national holiday)

National Museum of Nature and Science (国立科学博物館)

Scheduled Exhibition Date: Spring 2022
Venue: National Museum of Nature and Science (7-20 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
Opening hours: 9:00 - 17:00 (last admission 16:30)
Closed: Monday (or the following day if Monday is a national holiday)

Toyohashi Museum of Natural History (豊橋市自然史博物館)

Scheduled Exhibition Date: Summer 2022
Venue: Toyohashi Museum of Natural History (1-238 Aza-Oana, Oiwa-cho, Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan (in Toyohashi Zoo and Botanical Park)
Opening hours: 9:00 - 16:30 (last admission 16:00)
Closed on Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a national holiday)

Exhibition Highlight 1

Let's look for similarities and differences in the illustrations of the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus and the Pokémon Gachigoras!

Exhibition Highlight 2

A life-size skeletal model of a Fossil Pokémon! Let's compare this life-size skeletal model of a Pokémon with a real paleontological specimen!

Exhibition Highlight 3

Let's compare skeletons of Pokémon and dinosaurs! The skeletal images of Pokémon are shown for the first time in Japan. The skeletal diagram of Fossil Pokémon is an imaginary diagram.

Sources: https://www.kahaku.go.jp/pokemon/ and https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000241.000047048.html

YouTube Clip - TBS NEWS - The first collaboration between the National Science Museum and Pokémon

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B5WlTCP5ik