I don’t believe you could make it accessible only from within your walls, but a sandwich board sign letting people know that perhaps you have benches in the garden where they can sit while they battle and (if applicable) water fountains where they could refresh themselves could help. But if you have some sort of sign-in process, it might be a tough sell: the battles last about two minutes and I don’t think people tend to hang around at the gyms.
Cassidy Percoco
Collections Manager
St. Lawrence County Historical Association
(315) 386-8133
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Heath
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 4:42 PM
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Does anyone know if there's a way to attenuate the signals for the locations? The reason that I ask is that there's apparently a PokeGym in our Sculpture Garden, which would be great for our attendance, but it is easily accessible from outside the Garden walls. So trainers can get to it, without going through our front doors at all.
-Scott
W. Scott Heath
Operations Manager
(308) 865-8559
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Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Perian Sully <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Another option is to have a member of your staff play and then pay to get credits to buy time to set up a lure. This will call pokemon to your site (and, presumably, the traffic with it).
Per the suggestions here: <http://www.inc.com/walter-chen/pok-mon-go-is-driving-insane-amounts-of-sales-at-small-local-businesses-here-s-h.html> http://www.inc.com/walter-chen/pok-mon-go-is-driving-insane-amounts-of-sales-at-small-local-businesses-here-s-h.html
The Asian Art Museum is a gym, which means we do have lots of people hanging about our building, but some have also paid to come in and chase virtual monsters. Hopefully some of the content has rubbed off in the process... ? In the meantime, our programming staff is looking at ways of involving ourselves more directly, instead of as a purely accidental result of Niantic fortune.
~Perian
(apologies if this is a double post. I missed the confirmation message to approve my post)
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Leah Daniel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Pokemon Go is now accepting revisions (including additions!) to its Pokestops.
http://kotaku.com/you-can-now-request-new-pokestops-and-gyms-in-pokemon-g-1783669406
Leah Daniel
Nasukarasuyama, Japan
On Jul 13, 2016, at 05:47, Carolyn Trimble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
A museum here in Memphis (not mine) has been dropping lures around their museum to take advantage of the phenomenon. I haven't played the game, but I have a number of adult friends who are and love it.
I'm also hearing that the app's servers are crashing fairly often. Hopefully the server issues and kinks in locations (and whether or not institutions want to participate) will be worked out soon.
Apparently, the White House has been a hotly contested gym site.
I have still yet to find out if my museum is a location!
Carolyn Trimble
Instructor
Pink Palace Family of Museums
Memphis, TN
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Actually, there is. Depending on the location of your site, Ingress itself holds rather huge “Mission Days” where several hundred people tend to show up to run missions and try to collect specific artifacts that will only drop on that specific day and that locale. I would be willing to wager a rather large amount of money that it’s only a matter of time before this rolls over into Go! as well. We were in discussions with Niantic this past year to join up with one of these days as part of our Mayfair program – we’re located in a historic downtown area and are completely lit up with portals (and Pokemon!)
(And yes, I play both Ingress and Pokemon Go!)
Regan Brooks
Museum Marketing & Public Programs
Gaston County Museum of Art & History
131 West Main Street
P.O. Box 429
Dallas, NC 28034
704.922.7681 ext. 110 <tel:704.922.7681%20ext.%20110>
www.gastoncountymuseum.org <http://www.gastoncountymuseum.org/>
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"If you think museums are boring, buddy, you've been doing it wrong!" - Anonymous
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Lewis
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 3:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Pokémon Go site
So I'm not a gamer -- but "I know a guy.... " to coin a phrase from the movies.
He is a gamer, and also a software developer working on things on the level of Ingress or Pokemon. As others have said the new Pokemon game primarily used "portals" created by local gamers a few years ago for use in the game Ingress.
We had an Ingress "portal" in/near our museum, (a public statue located on a prominent corner outside our building). When the game first came out I approached my friend about how/what the museum could do to best take advantage of this craze. Alas, we couldn't come up with a lot of good answers. These games are really sorta hit-n-run type activities. Visitors come - collect what loot the can (in this case pokemons) - and then run off to find the next group. Unless someone knows differently, there isn't whole lot of opportunity for other community organizations to glam on to the craze and encourage visitors to stop, look, and linger. . . . Kinda unfortunate, but such is the nature of the game.
- David -
David Lewis
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From: Jordan Cao <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 2:40 pm
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Pokémon Go site
Becca (and others with this problem),
There is a function within the app to report problems like this. Unfortunately, you need to have the app downloaded to access the report function. In the settings menu, select "Report High-Priority Issue." This takes you to an external reporting center for game issues. Under "Gameplay Questions," select "Report an issue with a Gym or Pokestop." From what I understand, they've been responsive about removing Gyms and Pokestops that are causing problems like yours. Hopefully you can have this problem remedied sooner rather than later.
Best,
Jordan Cao
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Becca Hiller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Robin,
We are trying to have the location at our museum changed. The game makers chose a part of our grounds that are part of our admission fee and can only be accessed by foot. In the last week, we have had people angry AT US because of the admission cost, driving their cars on our grounds, and trying to sneak in during closed hours....all so they can get a Pokemon gym. Very frustrating.
We didn't ask to be part of it. In fact, we didn't know our museum had a location until people started showing up.
I have spent hours scouring the internet looking for a phone number or email address to contact the company and ask them to move the location to our parking lot or remove us completely. So far, no luck! For us, it has not been a good experience so far.
Becca Hiller
Museum Director
Santa Fe Trail Center Museum
On Jul 11, 2016 2:16 PM, "Robin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Does anyone know how we can get our museum to be a site for Pokémon Go? For those of you who are part of the game, how has it impacted your site?
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