Five Pokemon promo cards, one 1910 painting, and a pun that only works once you notice it: the attack is called “Scream.” In late 2018, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum hosted a major Edvard Munch retrospective, and The Pokemon Company built five promo cards around it — each one a different Pokemon mid-scream on Munch’s bridge, and handed out in three very different ways.
None of the five ever got a normal booster-pack pull. Three came from a purchase-and-choose giveaway, one shipped sealed inside a museum-shop collectible, and one went only to exhibition visitors — with a distribution window that sources still don’t agree on. We currently carry PSA10 graded copies of four of the five, with three in stock right now. This guide covers all five cards, how each one was actually obtained in 2018, and where our own stock sits today.
Of the five Munch Exhibition promo cards (286–290/SM-P), we carry PSA10 graded copies of four. Three are in stock right now: Pikachu 288 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) at ¥2,483,330, Psyduck 286 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) at ¥1,905,500 (single copy — when it sells, it’s gone), and Eevee 287 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) at ¥1,039,475. Rowlet 290 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) is sold out, and Mimikyu 289 was only ever distributed sealed inside a card file, and we don’t currently offer a priced copy.
Stock and prices below are our own current PSA10 listings, checked August 12, 2026. Inventory moves throughout the day — treat every figure as “currently listed,” not a guaranteed count.
All 5 Munch Exhibition Promo Cards
The set runs 286 through 290 in the SM-P promo numbering, one card per Pokemon, five different illustrators, three different distribution routes:
| # | Pokemon | Illustrator | How it was distributed (2018) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 286/SM-P | Psyduck | Tomokazu Komiya | 2-pack purchase, pick 1 of 3 (in-store only) |
| 287/SM-P | Eevee | Atsuko Nishida | 2-pack purchase, pick 1 of 3 (in-store only) |
| 288/SM-P | Pikachu | You Iribi | Museum visitor giveaway (window disputed — see below) |
| 289/SM-P | Mimikyu | Hasuno | Sealed inside a “Scream” mini card file (museum shop + Pokemon Center Online) |
| 290/SM-P | Rowlet | Hideki Ishikawa | 2-pack purchase, pick 1 of 3 (in-store only) |
All five are Japan-exclusive — none of them ever got an English-language printing. And despite the “pick 1 of 3” language, only three of the five (Psyduck, Eevee, Rowlet) actually shared that giveaway pool. Pikachu and Mimikyu were each handled on their own, which is where most of the confusion around this release comes from.
The Exhibition: Munch at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
“Munch: A Retrospective” — in Japanese, ムンク展 ―共鸣する高の叫び (“Munch: The Resonating Cry of the Soul”) — ran at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno from October 27, 2018 to January 20, 2019. It was built around roughly 100 works, more than 60 of them oil paintings, and its headline loan was the Munch Museum’s own 1910 tempera-and-oil version of The Scream — the first time that particular version had traveled to Japan. General admission tickets reportedly ran about ¥1,600, down to ¥800 for high schoolers.
The tie-in cards all reference that same 1910 tempera Scream — each Pokemon rendered mid-scream, hands to face, standing on Munch’s bridge under his signature swirling sky. It’s a straightforward crossover on paper, but the way Pokemon actually released these five cards turned out to be anything but standard.
How Each Card Was Actually Distributed
Psyduck, Eevee, and Rowlet shared one giveaway: starting November 2, 2018, Pokemon Center and Pokemon Store locations across Japan gave away one of the three — your choice — with every two-expansion-pack purchase, one card per transaction. Pokemon Center Online was not part of the promotion; this was strictly an in-store giveaway, and the only way to guarantee a specific one of the three was walking into a physical shop.
Mimikyu never got a standalone giveaway at all. It shipped sealed inside a “Scream” mini card file collectible, sold at the museum’s own shop and via Pokemon Center Online starting October 27, 2018 — the exhibition’s opening day. If you own a loose Mimikyu 289 today, it originally came out of that file, not a pack. For everything else Mimikyu-related, see our Mimikyu cards guide.
Pikachu is the one exception to all of the above: it was reserved for museum visitors themselves, illustrated by You Iribi rather than any of the other four artists. Exactly when and how it was handed out during the exhibition’s roughly three-month run is where the sources start to disagree — enough that we’re covering it as its own section below rather than stating a single answer here.
Illustrator note: Rowlet 290 was drawn by Hideki Ishikawa — see our Hideki Ishikawa illustrator guide for his other work — and Eevee 287 was drawn by Atsuko Nishida, covered in our Atsuko Nishida illustrator guide.
The Connected Artwork Across All 5 Cards
Line the five cards up in collection-number order — 286 through 290 — and a small detail shows up that isn’t obvious from any single card: each one’s background includes the previous card’s Pokemon, rendered as a silhouetted figure on the bridge behind the main artwork. It’s a connect-the-set gimmick that only reveals itself once you own the full run in order, which makes the full run worth lining up in order.
All five share the same attack, reported in English-language coverage as “Scream” — it confuses every Pokemon on the opposing side. We haven’t independently verified the Japanese-language move name printed on the cards, so we’re not translating it here.
If you’re trying to identify a loose copy, the collection number in the bottom corner (286–290) tells you both the Pokemon and where it sits in the silhouette sequence.
Our Current Stock: 4 of 5 Handled, 3 Currently Listed
We hold graded PSA10 copies of four of the five cards. Mimikyu is the one we don’t currently offer with a price — it exists in our system but isn’t listed for sale, so it’s left out of the ladder below.
- Pikachu 288 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) — currently listed at ¥2,483,330, our highest-priced card in this release.
- Psyduck 286 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) — currently listed at ¥1,905,500. Single copy — when it sells, it’s gone.
- Eevee 287 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) — currently listed at ¥1,039,475.
- Rowlet 290 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) — sold out. Last listed at ¥426,580; the product page stays up if you want to check back or ask about a restock.
Quantities move as orders come in — check the live product page for the current count before you check out. The prices above are stable, the stock isn’t.
The Pikachu 288 Distribution Date — What Sources Actually Say
Of the five cards, Pikachu 288 is the one with a genuinely unresolved distribution window, and we’d rather show you the disagreement than pretend it’s settled.
Bulbapedia’s record puts it during “Pokemon Week,” a promotional stretch from December 10–16, 2018, handed to visitors one card per person. A separate account from collectible-tracking site Pokumon describes a ticket-based, first-come exchange instead — with no individually wrapped packaging, cards arriving in bundles of 50 that museum staff opened and handed out on the spot — and gives a similar early-to-mid-December window (its own year label reads 2019, which looks like a typo, since the exhibition itself ran October 2018 through January 2019). Earlier press coverage from October 2018, including Anime News Network and Hypebeast, simply reported that visitors could receive the card, without specifying any particular period.
Put together, the honest summary is: museum visitors could receive Pikachu 288, during a limited window inside the roughly three-month run rather than the entire exhibition, at one card per person. Exact start and end dates, and how many were ever printed, aren’t pinned down consistently enough across sources for us to state as fact — so we’re not going to.
Where to Buy Munch Exhibition Promo Cards from Japan
Everything we list ships from our Tokyo warehouse with tracked delivery. Pikachu 288 is the only one of the four that was never available through a purchase-and-choose giveaway.
View Product → (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order)
Beyond this release, browse our full PSA10 card list or use our Quick Order page to build a mixed order across singles and sealed product. For the wider picture of what’s commanding high prices in the Japanese card market right now, see our most valuable Japanese Pokemon cards guide for 2026 — these five promos sit outside that list, since they’re driven by exhibition history rather than standard pull-rate rarity. And if you’re sourcing graded Japanese cards in volume rather than one at a time, our Japanese PSA10 wholesale guide covers how that process works.
This isn’t the only art-museum Pokemon crossover, either — a 2023 Van Gogh Museum tie-in produced its own Pikachu promo, currently listed at ¥534,982 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) if you want to compare the two side by side.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many Munch Exhibition Pokemon promo cards are there?
Five: Psyduck (286/SM-P), Eevee (287/SM-P), Pikachu (288/SM-P), Mimikyu (289/SM-P), and Rowlet (290/SM-P), tied to the 2018–19 Munch retrospective at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. All five are Japan-exclusive; none were printed in English.
Which Munch promo card is the most valuable?
Among the copies we carry, Pikachu 288 is our highest, currently listed at ¥2,483,330. It’s also the only one of the five that was never available through the purchase-and-choose giveaway — it went to museum visitors instead.
How was the Pikachu 288 card originally distributed?
To exhibition visitors, but sources disagree on the exact window. Bulbapedia cites a December 10–16, 2018 “Pokemon Week” giveaway; a separate secondary source describes a ticket-based exchange around the same period with cards handed out from opened 50-card bundles. Neither the exact dates nor the total print run are confirmed across sources.
Can I get the Mimikyu 289 card on its own?
Not through the original 2018 distribution — it only came sealed inside a “Scream” mini card file sold at the museum shop and Pokemon Center Online. We don’t currently offer a priced graded copy ourselves; see our Mimikyu cards guide for the character’s other printings.
Are the Munch Exhibition promo cards available in English?
No. All five — Psyduck, Eevee, Pikachu, Mimikyu, and Rowlet — were Japan-only releases tied to a Japanese museum exhibition, and none of them ever received an official English-language printing.
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