Pewter Museum of Science

Pewter Museum of Science ニビ科学博物館 Nibi Museum of Science "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	Pewter City
Region:	Kanto
Generations:	I, III, IV, VII
Location of Pewter Museum of Science in Kanto.
Pokémon world locations

The Pewter Museum of Science (Japanese: ニビ科学博物館 Nibi Museum of Science) is located in the north side of Pewter City, Kanto, and is one of the city's main attractions.

In the core series games

The Pewter Museum of Science hosts a wide range of attractions and exhibits, largely based around space and Fossil exploration. The museum holds a huge collection of artifacts, including rocks from the moon, space shuttles, and Fossils of ancient Pokémon. The admission is $50 for a child's ticket.

Floors

Pewter Museum of Science's side door

There are two floors to explore in the Pewter Museum of Science. The first floor holds the front desk and a Fossil exhibit containing the Fossils of Aerodactyl and Kabutops. The second floor hosts a space exhibit, featuring a Space Shuttle and Moon Stone that fell onto Mt. Moon. The player is able to explore the museum at any time, after paying the $50 admission fee.

Pewter Museum of Science's side entrance

Once the ability to use Cut out of battle has been gained^RBYFRLG or the Secret Technique Chop Down has been learned^PE, the player can sneak into the back of the museum and acquire the Old Amber from a scientist there, allowing the player to revive an Aerodactyl later in the game. In FireRed and LeafGreen, there is also a Move Tutor who will teach Seismic Toss.

In Generation II, the museum is closed due to renovations.

In Generation IV, the museum is open for business, but the major exhibitions are elsewhere, so entry is free. There is only one floor in this generation. There is a scientist in the museum who will revive a player's Fossils, much like the scientist at the Cinnabar Lab in Generations I, III, and VII. This is due to the fact that Fossils can be found under rocks using Rock Smash, unlike in Generation II, where players were required to transfer Fossil Pokémon from the Generation I games using the Time Capsule. Steven Stone, former Champion of the Hoenn region, will also appear here after the player has received a Hoenn first partner Pokémon from him at the Silph Co., inspecting a meteorite exhibit.

Exhibits

The Pewter Museum of Science hosts a wide array of different exhibits and attractions. The first floor contains Fossil exhibits, including Fossils of Aerodactyl and Kabutops, the rare, prehistoric Pokémon. The second floor has a space exhibit featuring a model of a Space Shuttle, and a rock, most likely a Moon Stone, that fell onto Mt. Moon in the form of a meteorite. In Generation VII, a model replica of an Aerodactyl is present next to its fossil, now stored in a glass case.

In the Generation I games and their Generation III remakes, an old man on the second floor of the museum states: "July 20, 1969! Humankind first set foot on the moon that day. I bought a color TV just so I could watch that news." July 20, 1969 was indeed the date that humans first landed on Earth's moon in the real world with the Apollo 11 flight. In Generation VII, he instead merely states that it has been "decades" since the moon landing, but also talks about humankind's plans to set foot on a "faraway red planet" (implied to be Mars).

In Generation I, the fossils use the front sprites of the equivalent variants of MissingNo. with their forms.

Aerodactyl Fossil

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  The Aerodactyl Fossil in Red and Green

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  The Aerodactyl Fossil in Red, Blue, and Yellow

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  The Aerodactyl Fossil in FireRed and LeafGreen

Kabutops Fossil

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  The Kabutops Fossil in Red and Green

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  The Kabutops Fossil in Red, Blue, and Yellow

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  The Kabutops Fossil in FireRed and LeafGreen

Attractions

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  The Fossil Exhibit in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

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  The Space Exhibit in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

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  The Meteorite Exhibit in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

Enigma Stone event

In HeartGold and SoulSilver, if the event item, Enigma Stone, is taken to the Pewter Museum of Science, traveling Pokémon Champion Steven Stone will have a researcher from the museum examine the stone. The researcher then discovers that it is really the Soul Dew, an item said to be the crystallized souls of Latias and Latios. After this brief encounter, depending on the game version, one of the twin dragons will appear outside of the Museum. It will remain there until the player defeats or catches it.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Old Amber	Received from a Scientist inside the back room of the museum (requires CutRBYFRLG/Chop DownPE)	R  B  Y  FR  LG  P  E
	Pretty Wing ×10	Received from a Scientist inside the back room of the museum after showing him an Aerodactyl (requires Chop Down)	P  E
	Soul Dew	Received from a scientist inside the museum after showing him the Enigma Stone	HG  SS

Pokémon

Generation IV

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
Omanyte	HG			SS			Revive Helix Fossil	20	Fossil
Kabuto	HG			SS			Revive Dome Fossil	20	Fossil
Aerodactyl	HG			SS			Revive Old Amber	20	Fossil
Lileep	HG			SS			Revive Root Fossil	20	Fossil
Anorith	HG			SS			Revive Claw Fossil	20	Fossil
Cranidos	HG			SS			Revive Skull Fossil	20	Fossil
Shieldon	HG			SS			Revive Armor Fossil	20	Fossil
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

Generation VII

All of these Trainers appear at the museum once the player has become Champion.

Trainer	Pokémon
1F
Master Trainer Hiker Hisato トオル Tōru	Aerodactyl♂ Lv.75 Roost Fly Toxic Iron Tail
2F
Master Trainer Hiker Valentino マサテル Masateru	Golem♂ Lv.75 Dig Fire Punch Defense Curl Protect

Layout

Inside design

Generation I Generation III Generation IV Generation VII

Outside design

Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation VII

In animation

Pokémon the Series

Pewter Museum of Science in Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Pokémon the Series: The Beginning

In Clefairy and the Moon Stone, Seymour mentioned he's a researcher from the Pewter Museum, although this isn't mentioned in the English dub.

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

The Museum itself appeared in Restore and Renew!. Ash, Goh, and Chloe originally visited the museum to see the recently revived giant Shieldon, but as the exhibit was closed for the day, they instead decided to dig up Fossils at the local digging site. After hours of digging, Goh managed to find an Old Amber, which was placed into a revival machine.

Team Rocket, wanting to steal the revived Pokémon for themselves, accelerated the revival process while no one was looking, causing the machine to be destroyed as the revived Aerodactyl emerged from it prematurely. Goh chased the Aerodactyl into the museum exhibit and battled it with his Golurk to get it under control, while Ash battled Team Rocket. In the end, Ash defeated Team Rocket and Goh managed to calm down and catch the Aerodactyl.

The Pewter Museum of Science is run by its overly enthusiastic Curator. The facility features a large biodome that houses many revived Fossil Pokémon, a fossil restoration machine, and an outdoor excavation site where visitors are allowed to try uncovering Fossils for themselves.

Pokémon seen at the Museum

Shieldon (giant)*	Omanyte	Omastar
Kabuto	Kabutops	Old Amber → Aerodactyl

Pokémon Origins

Pewter Museum of Science in Pokémon Origins

Red visited the Pewter Museum of Science in File 1: Red, where he overheard two girls talking about the local Gym Leader, Brock.

In the manga

Pewter Museum of Science in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Red, Green & Blue arc

In Make Way For Magmar!, the museum was burned down by two wild Magmar. While traveling with Giovanni, Red came across the burning museum, and used his Sandshrew's Sand Attack to immobilize the Magmar. Once Red had left after receiving an Old Amber as a gift, Giovanni killed the Spitfire Pokémon with his Cloyster when they regained consciousness.

Yellow arc

In Striking Golduck, during the invasion of the armies of the Elite Four, Brock had one of his Geodude protect a Kabuto kept at the rebuilt museum. After the ordeal, Brock took Kabuto under his ownership and later evolved it into a Kabutops.

In the magazines

Explanation about the Pewter Museum
(Pokémon Power magazine)

Pokémon Power

In Pokémon Power (issue 1, page 3), it is said that the fossil exhibit has recently opened and that it contains fossils discovered in the caves beneath Mt. Moon.

The curator of the museum is named Professor Phineas Fogg. His name appears to be based on Phileas Fogg, the protagonist of the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

Trivia

• In the Generation I games, the plaque accompanying the space shuttle model reads "Space Shuttle Columbia"; however, in the remakes, the plaque simply reads "Space Shuttle". This is probably due to the fact that on February 1, 2003, the real Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry during its 28th mission, killing all seven crew members. The reference to Space Shuttle Columbia was kept in the Japanese version of the Generation III games, but was removed in Generation VII.
• The Kabutops and Aerodactyl Fossil sprites are in the same pose as their species sprite in Pokémon Red and Green and Pokémon Red and Blue. This, however, is not true for Pokémon Yellow, or Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. Yellow used the Fossil sprites from Red and Blue which did not match the species' poses in Yellow, while LeafGreen and FireRed Fossil sprites had the same poses as the species did in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
• In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, if the player brings a Pokémon with an evolutionary line member that evolves by Moon Stone near the Moon Stone on 2F, it will stop following the player and stare at it. Similarly, if the player brings a Kabutops near the Kabutops fossil, it will stop walking and stare at the fossil.
• In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the Monstrous Tablecloth is described to have been designed by the Pewter Museum of Science.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 深灰科學博物館 Sāmfūi Fōhohk Bokmahtgún * 科學博物館 Fōhohk Bokmahtgún * Mandarin 深灰科學博物館 / 深灰科学博物馆 Shēnhuī Kēxué Bówùguǎn * 尼比市科學博物館 / 尼比市科学博物馆 Níbǐ Shì Kēxué Bówùguǎn * 科學博物館 / 科学博物馆 Kēxué Bówùguǎn * 深灰市科学博物馆 Shēnhuī Shì Kēxué Bówùguǎn * Czech Pewterské přírodovědné muzeum Finnish Pewterin tiedemuseo French Musée des Sciences d'Argenta German Marmorias Museum der Wissenschaft Italian Museo della Scienza di Plumbeopoli Korean 회색시티 과학 박물관 Hoesaek City Gwahak Bakmulgwan Polish Muzeum Nauki Marmorii Brazilian Portuguese Museu de Ciências Pewter (anime) Museu de Ciências de Pewter (manga) Russian Музей науки Пьютер-Сити Muzey nauki P'yuter-Siti Spanish Museo de la Ciencia de Ciudad Plateada Turkish Pewter Bilim Müzesi Vietnamese Viện bảo tàng Khoa học Nibi

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