Pokémon X Natural History Museum London 2026

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UPDATE 22/9/25 - Priority booking interest list and FAQs now on the museum website!

BIG NEWS!

Pokémon UK have announced a collab with the Natural History Museum, running from January 26th through to March 22nd 2026.

A special pop-up store (not a full “Pokémon Center”) will be inside the museum selling exclusive merchandise like the pictured Pikachu plush, clothing, accessories and other items inspired by the famous London museum.

Entry to the store requires tickets which will go on sale on the museum’s website from October 1st 2025. All profits from the store will go to the museum charity which is a nice touch.

It’s also EXTREMELY UNLIKELY after what happened with Van Gogh X Pokémon that there will be any exclusive TCG promo cards. Especially after the Fossil Museum Japan (soon to also visit Chicago) didn’t get them.

From Serebii’s website:
*”A special collaboration was held between the Natural History Museum in London, England and Pokémon to help celebrate Pokémon’s 30th anniversary. This allowed for Pokémon to take over the Cranbourne Boutique in the museum for a special museum focused pop-up store. Entry required a ticket with tickets available from October 1st 2025

”In the pop-up store, there was a variety of special Pokémon merchandise created exclusive for the museum including clothing, accessories, prints and exclusive plush. Some items will be available on Pokémon Center UK website and others on the Natural History Museum website. All profits from the pop-up store and Natural History Museum store will go towards the museum’s charitable mission to find solutions to the planetary emergency”*

Who’s planning to go? :slight_smile:

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Wait, what mission?! :pikashocked:

For anyone who has been to this museum, what are some wonderful unique exhibits that could be found there?

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DINOSAURS. And big animal sections, insects and fish basically. We’ve been a few times and it’s always good fun. There’s stuff about evolution (fitting) and the planet.

Blue whale skeleton in the foyer and the first Archaeopteryx specimen ever found is also housed there. And the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton.

It’s kind of like the museum in Animal Crossing.

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Could’ve had a Pikachu visiting the Museum card with cameo Wailord as the blue whale exhibit amongst others.

But yeah, it would go as well as Van Gogh, so it’ll never happen. Sad that scalpers and lowlifes have robbed us of would-be cards.

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Museum’s website is updated with FAQs and priority booking interest list for anyone planning to attend!

It will be open for three months so no major rush. Also for those playing/attending EUIC, can do both things that week!

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Spectacular museum to visit either way. Highly recommended if you are in London

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Until it gets cancelled after a few days due to scalpers going wild…

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It’s worth going for the building alone, and everything inside it is incredible too.

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They could easily do a promo, just print like 50 million copies

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Seems cool. Hope people who go enjoy it. If I had the time/money Id check it out.

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Thanks for posting this - I’ll be going!

I’m glad it’s running for months and not weeks, makes me hope things will be stocked a bit better

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Has anyone managed to get on the booking page? I’ve had my email for a priority booking but it seems the whole website is down?

Edit - Looks like all tickets are gone within 1 hour

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Very nostalgic! Did my Uni studies back in the day right next to this museum. Hands down one of favourite museums.

The Dinosaur stuff is what it is famous for, but there are also other awesome sections like:

And quite a lot more.

What’s even neater is that this museum is part of a sort of “museum belt” and within walking distance to 2 other awesome musuems (V&A and Science museums)

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Couldn’t pick a date before they all disappeared. A little frustrating as the “there will be a van gogh promo!” crowd will have booked it up and won’t go once it’s confirmed there is no promo.

Hopefully it gets extended a little. Was wanting an excuse to take my son on his first short flight

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This is insane, how have 3 months worth of dates been booked in an hour, my email got sent at 11.23 am

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Trust me, I’m as disappointed as you are. Not surprised though when you consider how big London is and how starved for Pokémon stores the UK is.

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Great. More faith lost. I’ll try to believe it’s organic interest in the exhibit, but that feels like lying to myself.

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Did anyone on e4 get a spot?

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Yes, I did. There may have been an issue with emails. I received two. One at 11:05 and another at 11:23.

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It is crazy. I couldn’t get any timeslot or day within 30 minutes of the booking coming live.