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Pinball Museum (other)
Pinball Museum may refer to: United States *Asheville Pinball Museum, a museum located in Asheville, North Carolina *Museum of Pinball, a museum in Banning, California *Pacific Pinball Museum, a museum in Alameda, CaliforniaPinball Perfection a museum, restoration and event center in West View, Pennsylvania *Roanoke Pinball Museum, a museum located in Roanoke, Virginia * Silverball Museum (Delray Beach), Florida *Silverball Museum, a museum located in Asbury Park, New Jersey *Seattle Pinball Museum, a museum located in Seattle, Washington Other places *Australian Pinball Museum, a museum in Nhill, Victoria, Australia * Dutch Pinball Museum, a museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands *Kraków Pinball Museum, a museum in Kraków, Poland See also *Musée Mécanique The Musée Mécanique (, "Mechanical Museum") is a for-profit interactive museum of 20th-century penny arcade games and artifacts, located at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. With over 300 mechanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In North Carolina
This list of museums in North Carolina is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Museums Defunct museums * Appalachian Cultural Museum, Boone, part of Appalachian State University, exhibits closed in 2006 but remaionline* Chapel Hill Museum, Chapel Hill, closed in 2010 * Charlotte Trolley Museum, Charlotte * Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fire Education Center and Museum, Charlotte, closed in 2009 * Cleveland County Historical Museum, Shelby, closed in 2012, site now home to the Earl Scruggs Center * Doll & Miniature Museum of High Point, closed in 2012 * Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, closed in 2010 * Grimes Mill, Salisbury, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Pinball
The Museum of Pinball was a non-profit museum dedicated to the preservation and advocacy of pinball machines and other arcade games. The museum was located in Banning, California, United States, and opened in 2013. With an 18-acre campus, over 40,000 sq ft of museum space, and over 700 total games on display it was billed as the largest pinball museum in the world. The museum was open infrequently to the public, mostly functioning as an event space. Due to costs of maintaining the collection, the Museum closed in September 2021 and auctioned off its collection. History The museum was founded in 2013 by pinball machine collector John Weeks. In January 2015 the Guinness Book of World Records recognized the museum as setting a record for the most people playing pinball simultaneously. Later that year the museum was incorporated into the Palm Springs Modernism Week events and billed as ''Retro Pinball Mania''. In 2020, the organization sought to gain a larger space in Palm Spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Pinball Museum
The Pacific Pinball Museum is a Board Managed and certified 501 C(3) nonprofit interactive museum/arcade offering a chronological and historical selection of rare bagatelles and early pinball games in addition to over 100 playable pinball machines ranging in era from the 1940s to present day located on Webster Street in Alameda, California. Throughout the 7,000 sq/ft museum are hand-painted murals, vintage Jukeboxes, educational handouts and rotating focused exhibits. There are also provisions for field-trips, self guided tours, educated docents and STEAM educational programs as part of the museum's "Play & Learn" philosophy. History The museum was founded in 2004 by Michael Schiess, a former museum exhibition designer. Schiess started collecting pinball machines in 2001. He decided to open his own museum after being unimpressed with the coverage of pinball history at other museums. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West View, Pennsylvania
West View is a borough in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, just north of downtown Pittsburgh. The population was 6,685 at the 2020 census. Geography and climate West View is located at (40.518368, -80.033645). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 7,277 people, 3,149 households, and 1,908 families residing in the borough. The population density was 7,210.8 people per square mile (2,781.8/km2). There were 3,304 housing units at an average density of 3,273.9 per square mile (1,263.1/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 97.62% White, 0.93% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.52% Asian, 0.18% from other races, and 0.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.54% of the population. There were 3,149 households, out of which 28.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.3% were married couples living together, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In Virginia
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. This is a sortable list. Click on the small boxes next to any heading title to reorder the list (in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order) by that category. Museums Defunct museums * Anderson Gallery, Richmond, part of VCU School of the Arts, closed in 2015, collection moved to VCU Libraries * Artisans Center of Virginia Galleries, Waynesboro, closed the galleries in 2009 * Beebe Ranch, Chincoteaque, closed in 2010 * Claude Moore Colonial Farm * Civil War Life Museum, Massaponax * Collingwood Library and Museum, Alexandria * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silverball Museum (Delray Beach) .
The Silverball Museum is a museum of pinball machines, located at 19 NE 3rd Avenue, Delray Beach, Florida. It contains a changing variety of restored and newer machines. Admission to the museum gives free play on the machines. There is a second Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, New Jersey Asbury Park () is a beachfront city located on the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 15,188 External links Silverball Museum Web site Museums in Palm Beach County, Florida [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In New Jersey
This list of museums in New Jersey is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Lists of New Jersey institutions which are not museums are noted in the "See also" section, below. List Defunct museums * Army Communications, Radar, and Electronics Museum, Fort Monmouth, closed in 2010, collections moved to the United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland * Asbury Park Rock 'N Roll Museum, Asbury Park, closed in 2004 * Charles and Anna Hankins Museum, Lavallette, building sold in 2008 and displays moved to Toms River Seaport Society Maritime Museum * Community Children's Museum, Dover, closed in 2012 * Fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In Seattle
Seattle, Washington is home to four major art museums and galleries: the Frye Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Several Seattle museums and cultural institutions that are not specifically art museums also have excellent art collections, most notably the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, which has an excellent collection of Native American artwork. Seattle is also home to well over 100 commercial art galleries, at least a dozen non-profit art galleries, and perhaps a hundred artists' studios that are open to the public at least once a month. About half of these galleries and studios are concentrated in one neighborhood, Pioneer Square. Museums Defunct museums * Consolidated Works, closed in 2006 *Milepost 31, closed 2017website history of Pioneer Square and the construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, featured model of Bertha (tunnel boring machine) * Museum of Mysteries, closed in 2014, coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nhill
Nhill is a town in the Wimmera, in western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Nhill is located on the Western Highway, Victoria, Western Highway, halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne. At the , Nhill had a population of 1,749. "Nhill" is believed to be a Wergaia word meaning "early morning mist rising over water" or "white mist rising from the water".''The Horsham Times'', "The discovery of Nhill", 2 June 1944, p. 4. Nhill is the administrative headquarters for Shire of Hindmarsh and residents are mainly employed in either farming or food processing, most notably in grain and fowl. The town is home to a community of Karen people, the first of whom came to Australia as refugees, and who settled in Nhill in the early 2010s to work at the Luv-a-Duck food processing facility. In 2012, there were over 100 Karen residents in Nhill. History The formally recognised traditional owners for the area in which Nhill sits are the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Pinball Museum
The Dutch Pinball Museum is a museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The museum is home to more than 130 different pinball machines ranging from 1930 to today and also includes a rare toupie hollandaise table from the year 1853. History The museum originated out of a private collection of founder Gerard van de Sanden. The museum opened on 29 August 2015 but was officially opened by former Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm on 26 November 2015. The museum opened on the Paul Nijghkade in Katendrecht, but later moved to the Dubbele Palmboom in Delfshaven Delfshaven is a borough of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on the right bank of river Nieuwe Maas. It was a separate municipality until 1886. The town of Delfshaven grew around the port of the city of Delft. Delft itself was not located on a major river .... Collection The collection consists of 31 electromechanical pinball machines, 43 Solid State pinball machines, and 60 Dot-Matrix pinball machines, as well as an original toupie holland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"New Meuse"'' inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse first, but now to the Rhine instead. Rotterdam's history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by William IV, Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country. A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Europe's largest seaport. In 2020, it had a population of 651,446 and is home to over 180 nationalities. Rotterdam is known for its university, riverside setting, lively cultural life, maritime heritage and modern architecture. The near-complete destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the first 12 sites granted the status. The city has grown from a Stone Age settlement to Poland's second-most-important city. It began as a hamlet on Wawel Hill and was reported by Ibrahim Ibn Yakoub, a merchant from Cordoba, as a busy trading centre of Central Europe in 985. With the establishment of new universities and cultural venues at the emergence of the Second Polish Republic in 1918 and throughout the 20th century, Kraków reaffirmed its role as a major national academic and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
