Pacific Pinball Museum

The Pacific Pinball Museum is a museum that showcases the history of pinball machines since 1879. The museum is located in Alameda, California.

History

The museum was founded by Michael Schiess, a former exhibition designers for museums, in 2004. Shooting began in 2001 with the collection of pinball machines.

He decided to open his own museum, having failed to convince him, the presentation of the history of pinball machines in other museum. One of his first major acquisitions consisted of thirty-six machines. Fourteen of these machines were installed in a rented room in Alameda, the "Lucky Ju Ju ". The first donations were collected using a can in the exhibition. In 2004, enlarged the establishment and became a non-profit organization that was renamed " Pacific Pinball Museum ". The museum expanded again in 2009 and showed forty wood rail and wedge head pinball machines from the collection of Larry Zartarian. In addition to shooting and the museum's board today, two employees work in the museum.

Collection

The exhibition of the museum includes about ninety pinball machines, the 1879 is in chronological order models to this day. Overall, the shooting collection of 800 machines. The non- issued copies are maintained on a secret 8000 square feet (about 743 meters) wide area. The price of admission is the free play on all included in the exhibition shown machines. The oldest pinball machine from 1879 is a Montague Redgrave Parlor Bagatelle. Contemporary examples include, the Addams Family and Twilight Zone pinball machine. The museum also features a transparent pinball machine from 1976, built by Schiess and Wade Krause and is based on the "Surf Champ " by Gottlieb. One of the most valuable pieces of the collection is the one built in Art Deco style, so-called Bally Bumper from the 1930s. This machine was confiscated by the police Oakländer during Prohibition. The museum's collection was also exhibited at the San Francisco International Airport.