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Tags : Museum
Timings : Open 10 A.M. to 8 P.M
Admission : Free
Location : Pier 45, Fishermans Wharf
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Musée Mécanique (meaning as Mechanical Museum in English) is a profit-based museum situated at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. It embraces an arcade of the 20th century's coin-operated machines and various captivating artefacts. This place features an exceptional collection of over 280 mechanical entertainment machines covering fully Mechanical orchestras that play automatically to vintage slot machines. It is among the biggest collections of such games in the world having private ownerships.
There are various vintage peeps, fortune tellers, tarot card readers, the old-school photo stands that so far produce great black & white photo strips. In the middle of the room, there's a tremendous diorama that presents a traveling carnival along with a Ferris wheel and other rides that has more than a hundred moving parts. Also nearby this, there's a red steam-powered motorcycle on display, which is probably the sole one in the world, built in Sacramento in 1912.
The Zelinsky family owns and operates this Museum. The entry to this place is free of charge. For the games, you will be charged from 1c to 1$. Most of the games will charge 25c - 50c.