Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum Collaboration & Promo Card Revealed

Published on 27 September 2023 at 19:06

TPCi revealed full details of the Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collaboration starting on September 28, 2023. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Van Gogh Museum, Pokémon and the Van Gogh Museum have launched an official collaboration aimed at introducing new audiences to the work of Vincent van Gogh.

 

The Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collaboration also includes various merchandise and the distribution of a special promotional card named "Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat."

 

The official opening of the Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum exhibition is scheduled for tomorrow in Amsterdam, Netherlands. From September 28th to January 7th, 2024, visitors can explore Pokémon-themed artworks, participate in an art hunt, and purchase exclusive merchandise available both at the Pokémon Center and the museum.


Promo card distribution: 

Update 13-10-2023: Distribution of the 'Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat' promo at the Van Gogh Museum will cease starting October 14 to prioritize safety and security of visitors and staff at the Museum. The latest information is available in their updated FAQ.

 

The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) on how to get another chance to acquire the "Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat" promo card at the Pokémon Center with more details coming soon.

 

Pokemon Center

A special promotional ‘Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat’ trading card inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat’ will be available as a gift with purchase item with all Pokémon Center x Van Gogh Museum products.

 
You can receive this special card as a gift with each eligible item you order from PokemonCenter.com in the US or UK, while supplies last. For example, if you place an order that contains two items from the Van Gogh Museum collection, you will receive two promo cards as a gift. Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, 1887, is the inspiration for this card's artwork.
 

Eligible items:

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu Plush - 7 ¾ In.

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Eevee Inspired by Self-Portrait with Straw Hat Figure

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu Inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat Figure

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum Double Deck Box

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Munchlax & Snorlax Inspired by The Bedroom Double Deck Box

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Corviknight Inspired by Wheatfield with Crows Double Deck Box

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Munchlax & Snorlax Inspired by The Bedroom Card Sleeves (65 Sleeves)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Corviknight Inspired by Wheatfield with Crows Card Sleeves (65 Sleeves)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Sunflora Inspired by Sunflowers Card Sleeves (65 Sleeves)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Smeargle Inspired by Self-Portrait as a Painter Card Sleeves (65 Sleeves)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Eevee Inspired by Self-Portrait with Straw Hat Card Sleeves (65 Sleeves)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu Inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat Card Sleeves (65 Sleeves)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum Playmat

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Corviknight Inspired by Wheatfield with Crows Playmat

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Munchlax & Snorlax Inspired by The Bedroom Playmat

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu & Eevee Inspired by Self-Portraits Playmat

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Eevee Inspired by Self-Portrait with Straw Hat Canvas Tote Bag

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu Inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat Canvas Tote Bag

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Munchlax & Snorlax Inspired by The Bedroom Puzzle (1,008 Pieces)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Munchlax & Snorlax Inspired by The Bedroom Journal

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum Journal

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu Inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat Journal

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Eevee Inspired by Self-Portrait with Straw Hat Canvas Wall Art

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Sunflora Inspired by Sunflowers Canvas Wall Art

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pikachu Inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat Canvas Wall Art

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum 15 oz. Mug

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum Posters (6-Pack)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum Postcards (12-Pack)

  • Pokémon Center × Van Gogh Museum: Pokémon Inspired by Paintings from the Van Gogh Museum Pin Box Set (6-Pack)

At the Van Gogh Museum

Pokémon Adventure and Promo Cards

Source: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/van-gogh-museum-x-pokemon#how-to-draw-pikachu

For ages 6 and up

Go on a Pokémon Adventure along Van Gogh's paintings and discover the stories about the masterpieces. Follow the clues, complete the quest, and hand in your answers for a special Pikachu x Van Gogh Museum promo card to add to your Pokémon collection (subject to availability).

The Pokémon Adventure is available in English and Dutch. Pick up your copy at the Information Desk in the Atrium.


Artwork

The artwork has been illustrated by known Pokemon TCG illustrators, and are based of Van Gogh paintings. Here is a list.

  • Sunflora inspired by Sunflowers, illustrated by Tomokazu Komiya
  • Smeargle inspired by Self-Portrait as a Painter, illustrated by Tomokazu Komiya
  • Munchlax & Snorlax inspired by The Bedroom, illustrated by sowsow
  • Eevee inspired by Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, illustrated by sowsow
  • Pikachu inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, illustrated by Naoyo Kimura
  • Corviknight inspired by Wheatfield with Crows, illustrated by Naoyo Kimura

Pokemon TCG Merchandise

There will also be Pokemon TCG merchandise, our friend PTCG Radio showed off some of the TCG merchandise that is part of this collaboration. Some of them will be only available at the museum and some of it at Pokemon Center. More details soon.

Full official press release below.


The Pokémon Company International Partners With The Van Gogh Museum For Special ‘Pokémon x Van Gogh’ Art Collaboration

AMSTERDAM – Sept. 27, 2023 – See Pikachu, Eevee, Snorlax and many other Pokémon in a whole new way starting Sept. 28 until Jan. 7, 2024 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Experience a variety of Pokémon themed activities across the museum and online aimed at introducing and teaching young budding artists about the works of Vincent van Gogh.
 
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Van Gogh Museum, Pokémon and the Van Gogh Museum have launched an official collaboration aimed at introducing new audiences to the work of Vincent van Gogh. Both Vincent van Gogh’s work and Pokémon have a special connection with Japanese art and culture. Japanese prints had a profound impact on Vincent’s art and on his world view. Speaking to his brother Theo in a letter in September 1888, Vincent said ‘And we wouldn’t be able to study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much happier and more cheerful, and it makes us return to nature, despite our education and our work in a world of convention.’
 
Emilie Gordenker, General Director of the Van Gogh Museum commented: ‘This collaboration will allow the next generation to get to know Vincent van Gogh’s art and life story in a refreshing way. The Van Gogh Museum and The Pokémon Company International have drawn on many years of educational expertise to create a special experience for children, their supervisors, and we hope many others at the Van Gogh Museum.’ 

The Pokémon and Van Gogh Museum collaboration will feature the following activations running from Sept. 28 until Jan. 7, 2024. To participate in the activities, a regular museum admission ticket is required which can only be purchased online.
 
‘Pokémon at the Van Gogh Museum’ presentation (permanent collection, floor 1)
Several of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous works from the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum served as inspiration for six paintings made by artists from The Pokémon Company. Examples include, Pikachu shown in a work that is inspired by Self-portrait with Grey Felt Hat (1887), the Pokémon Sunflora is hidden in a variant of Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers (1889), and you can find Snorlax and Munchlax relaxing in a work inspired by The Bedroom (1888). You can admire these six specially created paintings on the first floor of the Rietveld building (Rietveldgebouw)
 
A Pokémon Adventure activity (6 years+, activity leaflets are handed out at the Atrium)
A Pokémon Adventure leaflet will lead visitors along the works by Vincent van Gogh that served as inspiration for the paintings in the six-piece special presentation, Pokémon at the Van Gogh Museum. During the activity, visitors will discover the museum and the stories behind the paintings. Once participants complete the Pokémon Adventure activity, they can hand in their completed leaflet for a special Pikachu x Van Gogh Museum promo card (subject to availability). The Pokémon Adventure leaflet is available in both Dutch and English.
 
Pokémon x Van Gogh online learning material – Van Gogh at School (Upper primary lower secondary education level)
Vincent greatly admired everything related to Japan, and Japanese prints taught him to look at the world differently. The use of flat planes of strong colors, everyday subjects and attention for detail in nature spoke to him. Using the Pokémon x Van Gogh collaboration as a starting point, pupils will learn about the connection between Van Gogh and Japan, and about how inspiration can work in two directions. The teaching materials are available in both Dutch and English.
 
‘How to draw Pikachu’ video guide (Restaurant Rietveldgebouw 0) 
A guided video activity will be available within the museum which teaches visitors how to draw the fan favorite Pokémon Pikachu and encourages them to try it for themselves.
 
‘Pokémon Center x Van Gogh Museum’ merchandise
The Pokémon Center online store will feature an exclusive range of ‘Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum’ merchandise featuring the art from the collaboration. Items available include a special Vincent Van Gogh inspired Pikachu Plush, Trading Card Game sleeves, Van Gogh inspired figures of Pikachu and Eevee, Poster Prints, a Jigsaw Puzzle and more. A special promotional ‘Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat’ trading card inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat’ will be available as a gift with purchase item with all Pokémon Center x Van Gogh Museum products. Products and promotional trading cards are available whilst stocks last. For the full ranges available please visit www.pokemoncenter.com in the U.S. and www.pokemoncenter.ca in Canada.
 
The Van Gogh Museum Shop will also feature an exclusive range of Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum merchandise featuring art from the collaboration.
 
Director of Licensing at The Pokémon Company International, Mathieu Galante commented ‘We are always looking for fantastic partners that we can create unique and joyful experiences with for Pokémon fans, and we have genuinely found that in working with the Van Gogh Museum. There is a strong link between the inspiration behind Pokémon and the inspiration behind some of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous work. With this collaboration we really hope that we can see children discovering and immersing themselves into the world of art through the incredible works of Van Gogh and Pokémon.’
 
For further information on the collaboration, please visit the Van Gogh Museum website.

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