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The Musee Mecanique - Musée Mécanique - Mechanical Museum

94133 San Francisco, CA, United States of America (USA) (California)
Address Pier 45 Shed A at the end of Taylor Street
Fisherman's Wharf 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Fairground
  • Motorcycles / Motorbikes
  • Mechanical Music Instruments
  • Pinball (Flippers)
  • Jukeboxes

Opening times
 daily 10am - 8pm

Admission
Status from 03/2020
 While the museum is free, visitors must pay for use of the games out of pocket.
Contact
Tel.:+1-415-346-20 00  eMail:dan museemecaniquesf.com  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.museemecaniquesf.com
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Location / Directions
N37.809241° W122.415908°N37°48.55446' W122°24.95448'N37°48'33.2676" W122°24'57.2688"
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street.
The F Market streetcar runs through the area,
the Powell-Hyde cable car lines runs to Aquatic Park, at the edge of Fisherman's Wharf,
and the Powell-Mason cable car line runs a few blocks away.
Description

Wikipedia:
Mechanical Museum

The Musée Mécanique owns over 300 mechanical machines, and is one of the largest privately owned collection of such games in the world.

The Musée Mécanique is owned and managed Dan Zelinsky. The machines require constant maintenance, with some having undergone major restorations. More than 100,000 visitors a year visit the Musée Mécanique. While the museum is free, visitors must pay for use of the games out of pocket.

Collection

The Musée Mécanique has a collection of over 300 mechanical games including: music boxes, coin-operated fortune tellers, Mutoscopes, video games, love testers, player pianos, peep shows, photo booths, dioramas and more. The museum displays about 200 of the machines at their current location.

The museum has many rare and historical pieces.
A large diorama of a traveling carnival with a ferris wheel and other rides with over 100 sits in the center of the museum.
The museum owns what is believed to be the only steam powered motorcycle in the world, built in Sacramento in 1912.
The Royal Court diorama features couples ballroom dancing and was featured in the Panama–Pacific International Exposition.
Laffing Sal, which has been described as "famously creepy", is a 6 foot tall, large laughing automaton, which was originally located at the Fun House at Playland.
The museum also owns a collection of machines made by prisoners at Alcatraz out of toothpicks.
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