Won't it take just as long to auction all the games off, as it will to do any of the other solutions? I answer all my PMs the best I can with the information I have. To everyone who has ever attended one of our events, we thank you!Īnd a VERY special THANK YOU to everyone who volunteered at the Museum. My next post will include auction details (dates, times, schedule, links, etc.)
The collection is "locked" for the auction. Pins and vids are being sold via auction only. The primary auction will take place in Banning at the Museum of Pinball. The official announcement will be fore coming. Therefore, all the games will be auctioned in the upcoming months. Here's what I can share:Īll deadlines have passed to relocate, obtain a sponsorship, sell to one collector, etc.
Last night I was fortunate to have dinner with the Museum of Pinball owner and management team which included the owner John Weeks.
PINBALL MUSEUM AUCTION AFTER CLOSING ITS UPDATE
Retrieved November 5, 2021.Sorry it's taken this long to provide an update but I didn't have much to add until specific deadlines had passed and final decisions had been made. "The Retro And Cryptocurrency Booms Intersected In One Wild Pinball Auction". "The massive Museum of Pinball is closing its doors for good". "Museum of Pinball backtracks on plan to move from Banning to Palm Springs". ^ "Modernism Week Events Expand Beyond Coachella"."Pinball Museum Will Auction 1,700 Arcade Games After Closing Its Doors". ^ a b Vigdor, Neil (September 9, 2021).^ "The Museum of Pinball makes a lot of noise in a quiet California town".^ a b "King of pinball museums is in massive facility in Banning".The auction drew higher prices for the pinball tables than they were considered normal, which were tied to spectuative collectors that had similarly driven the collection of prices of retro video games in 20.
In September 2021 it announced auction dates for its collection. The Museum was unable to obtain additional funding within necessary deadlines, and in July 2021, announced they would be shuttering the museum, with auctions to sell off their collection to occur within the coming months. As a result, in June 2021, the organization announced that they may have to sell off their excess machines to save costs on storage space unless they were able to get additional funding within a few weeks. However, while they had secured the rights to move into the property, the planned building had been sold to a new agent, and the costs and time to renovate the facility, along with the costs for ongoing storage, were beyond the funding that the organization could support. In 2020, the organization sought to gain a larger space in Palm Springs to hold its collection, as storage costs for their current location had risen too high. Later that year the museum was incorporated into the Palm Springs Modernism Week events and billed as Retro Pinball Mania. In January 2015 the Guinness Book of World Records recognized the museum as setting a record for the most people playing pinball simultaneously. The museum was founded in 2013 by pinball machine collector John Weeks. ĭue to costs of maintaining the collection, the Museum closed in September 2021 and auctioned off its collection. The museum was open infrequently to the public, mostly functioning as an event space. 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 located in Banning, California, United States, and opened in 2013. The Museum of Pinball was a non-profit museum dedicated to the preservation and advocacy of pinball machines and other arcade games.
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