Nick Gray, the founder and chief executive officer of Museum Hack, says one of the few anecdotes he’s heard so far concerned national park visitors who went too far off the trails. Only a few of them have gone rogue-one curator had to ask unknowing players not to sit on the base of a sculpture, and some players have hopped fences to avoid paying admission. Generally speaking, though, Pokemon Go users have received a warm welcome from cultural institutions across the country and around the world. “Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism,” Andrew Hollinger, the Holocaust Museum’s communications director, said in a statement to media Wednesday. But they’re still driving players to the sites. It means people engaging with each other and with spaces more.”īy some accounts, screen shots of these in-poor-taste PokeStops are purported to be hoaxes. Mary Zawacki, curator of the Schenectady County Historical Society told a local newspaper that the game “is majorly changing how we interact with the spaces around us, and the people around us. In upstate New York, a small-town historical society in Schenectady is similarly promoting a Pokemon walk in the downtown Stockade Historic District the 100 registered guests will learn about the area’s unsung architecture and monuments.
Two thousand players have already signed up. Tiffany Rhoades, the company’s audience development assistant, says Pokemon-driven “hunting parties” are like next-gen Instameets among the pioneers are the Louisville Zoo, which is promoting a tour designed just for Pokemon Go fans. Museum Hack, an organization that helps cultural institutions expand their audiences, is tracking some of the more creative efforts to get Pokemon users in the door. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. That number doesn’t even begin to quantify the increase in foot traffic, said spokesperson Beth Bobbitt, noting that many gamers are exploring the museum’s grounds rather than checking in explicitly with guest services.Įven in Boca Raton, Fla., a place known more for retirement communities and golf courses than kids attached to their smartphones, Pokemon Go has driven a startling 25 per cent single-day spike in attendance to the tranquil Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, where there are 15 PokeStops. After a blog post last Thursday invited Pokemon fans to “catch them all” on the museum grounds, a spokesperson reported an attendance uptick of nearly 30 per cent-with higher visitation numbers than on the Fourth of July weekend, which is among the museum’s busiest all year. Remember, we have 8 Pokestops and 4 gyms! Come and catch ‘em all! #McNay #PokemonGo #MuseumPokemonĪ post shared by The McNay Art Museum on at 1:55pm PDTĬrystal Bridges, the five-year-old American art museum in Bentonville, Ala., has reported similar increases. Spotted in the courtyard by McNay Visitor Services Manager, Dani Ferguson.
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