The Museum provided excellent facilities, plenty of space and an almost-limitless supply of machines to use, so finding a suitable alternative won’t be easy. Once those plans ran over budget and beyond the October deadline to vacate the current home, the writing was sadly on the wall.Īpart from being home of the Walter Day Trading Card collection, the Museum also hosted the annual INDISC (It Never Drains In Southern California) tournament, so work is underway to find a new home for the 2022 edition which was originally scheduled for January. The planned move to the Palm Springs location would have addressed many of those issues by permitting opening seven-days-a-week with a permanent dedicated staff for maintenance and customer service. Volunteer technicians worked hard to get the machines ready for events When the final event held at the Museum was announced, the Museum of Pinball Experience needed to reduce attendance to 25% of normal capacity, limited opening to twelve hours, closed the entire video half of the building and priced tickets at $150 per adult.Īlthough the Museum operated as a non-profit, opening just a few times a year to a restricted audience paying premium entry prices on machines maintained by volunteers seemed unsustainable in the long term. No explanation for the closure of the Museum and the disposal of its assets has been forthcoming from the owners, John and Johnathan Weeks, but the operation has had something of a difficult history due to the size of the collection, the costs associated with maintaining the games in good order, the cost of running air conditioning in a building in the desert, the effects of Covid on attendance limits and social distancing, and difficulty getting permission from the local authorities to open the venue more than a few times a year. Some of the hundreds of pinballs at the Museum There are rows upon rows of video games too The video game room at the Museum of Pinball
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