Pewter Museum of Science

The Pewter Museum of Science (Japanese: ニビ 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===
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 and . The second floor hosts a space exhibit, featuring a Space Shuttle and Moon Stone that fell onto Mt. Moon. The is able to explore the museum at any time, after paying the 50 admission fee.
Once the ability to use out of battle has been gained or the Secret Technique Chop Down has been learned, 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 later in the game. In , there is also a Move Tutor who will teach .
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 , , and . This is due to the fact that Fossils can be found under rocks using , unlike in Generation II, where players were required to transfer Fossil Pokémon from the Generation I games using the Time Capsule. Steven Stone, former 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 and , the rare, prehistoric Pokémon. The second floor has a space exhibit featuring a model of a , 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 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 ).
In Generation I, the fossils use the front sprites of the equivalent variants of MissingNo. with their forms.
====Aerodactyl Fossil====
File:Spr 1g 142 f.png|The Aerodactyl Fossil in Red and Green
File:Spr 1b 142 f.png|The Aerodactyl Fossil in Red, Blue, and Yellow
File:142 f.png|The Aerodactyl Fossil in FireRed and LeafGreen
====Kabutops Fossil====
File:Spr 1g 141 f.png|The Kabutops Fossil in Red and Green
File:Spr 1b 141 f.png|The Kabutops Fossil in Red, Blue, and Yellow
File:141 f.png|The Kabutops Fossil in FireRed and LeafGreen
====Attractions====
File:Pewter Museum First Floor Left LGPE.png |The Fossil Exhibit in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
File:Pewter Museum Second Floor Right LGPE.png|The Space Exhibit in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
File:Pewter Museum Second Floor Left LGPE.png|The Meteorite Exhibit in Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!
===Enigma Stone event===
In , 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===
===Pokémon===
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===Trainers===
====Generation VII====
All of these Trainers appear at the museum once the player has become .
===Layout===
====Inside design====
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==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
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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.
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The Museum itself appeared in Restore and Renew!. , Goh, and Chloe originally visited the museum to see the recently revived , 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.
, 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 emerged from it prematurely. Goh chased the Aerodactyl into the museum exhibit and battled it with his to get it under control, while Ash battled Team Rocket. In the end, Ash defeated Team Rocket and Goh managed to calm down and the .
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====
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===Pokémon Origins===
 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==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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In Make Way For Magmar!, the museum was burned down by two wild . While traveling with , came across the burning museum, and used his 's to immobilize the Magmar. Once Red had left after receiving an Old Amber as a gift, Giovanni killed the with his when they regained consciousness.
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In Striking Golduck, during the invasion of the armies of the Elite Four, Brock had one of his protect a kept at the rebuilt museum. After the ordeal, Brock took Kabuto under his ownership and later evolved it into a .
==In the magazines==
===Pokémon Power===
In (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 , the protagonist of the 1872 novel .
==Trivia==
* In the Generation I games, the plaque accompanying the space shuttle model reads ""; 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 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 and Fossil sprites are in the same pose as their species sprite in and . This, however, is not true for , or . 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 .
* 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 , the Monstrous Tablecloth is described to have been designed by the Pewter Museum of Science.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
Category:Kanto locations
Category:Red, Blue and Yellow locations
Category:FireRed and LeafGreen locations
Category:HeartGold and SoulSilver locations
Category:Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! locations
es:Museo de la Ciencia de Ciudad Plateada
fr:Musée des Sciences d'Argenta
it:Museo della Scienza di Plumbeopoli
ja:ニビかがくはくぶつかん
zh:深灰科學博物館