The Holocaust Museum has asked people to stop playing on site(Picture: Andrea Peterson)

Since it was launched last week, people have been playing Pokemon Go pretty much anywhere.

But if there was ever a location you should look up from your phone and think ‘sometimes you can’t catch ’em all’, the Holocaust Museum should be it.

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But that thought clearly hasn’t occurred to everyone heading to the museum based in Washington DC since the game was launched.

It’s got so bad, that museum staff have had to go to the lengths of telling people not to play in the memorial to victims of the Nazis.


Several images are circulating online showing creatures in the museum, including one with a poison gas-type Pokemon called Koffing next to a sign for the Helena Rubinstein Auditorium.



The image, which is still in circulation on Twitter, has been deleted from Imgur, so could be a hoax.

SOMEONE FOUND KOFFING IN THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IM DEAD pic.twitter.com/2v35SToUua — Quincy/Quinn/Quince (@QPastura) July 11, 2016

But Andrew Hollinger, the museum’s communications director, told the Washington Post that staff were aware and concerned about the potential appearance.

According to the newspaper, the museum has become particularly popular because it is a PokeStop in the game – somewhere you can get in-game items.

Mr Hollinger added: ‘Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism.

‘We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game.’

Metro.co.uk has approached Niantic for a response.

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