The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is reportedly asking visitors to not play the wildly popular smartphone-based “Pokemon Go” video game while visiting the D.C. landmark.
“Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism,” said museum communications director Andrew Hollinger, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. “We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game.”
An image circulating online depicts a rather disturbing virtual item for discovery at the museum: a Pokémon called Koffing that emits “poisonous gas” near a sign for the museum’s Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, The Post reported.
The image could be a hoax, but Hollinger told The Post that the museum is nonetheless concerned.
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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