Musée Mécanique

This place is so cool - most the machines are 25 cents each. I loved seeing the retro coin machines and the little dance shows! They have an ATM here and a quarter dispenser. I spent about $10 here and played so many games

This was such a fun experience?it takes you back to the far, far past of this land. So beautiful and free-spirited. I loved how every era is represented here, from the old singing and fortune-telling machines to the vintage racing slots and the newer NBA basketball games. With over 300 mechanical and coin-operated wonders, including Zoltar-style automatons, it's a truly fascinating collection of gaming treasures. I'll definitely recommend this warm journey through time! This place is a gem. You could honest

Fun place to see and play with all kinds of vintage coin operated games. Cheap and fun! As an additional note, if you appreciate mechanical designs, you'll love seeing how these old machines work. My favorite was the baseball game that kept track of outs, score, men on base, pitch count and more, all mechanically. Very cool!

One of the places you have to stop by when you're here as it's free to look around, fun and nostalgic to play some arcade games you likely haven't seen since you were a child or teenager. There were strange and weird games that were from well before we were born which were crazy to see what they had for entertainment for the 20s to the 60s. They have pinball machines which two in our group tried. Our son tried a standup Pac-Man game and did well on it. I tried an old Ms PacMan standup arcade game and did r

This museum has a really cool collection of old arcade machines and mechanical musical instruments. The history behind it is super interesting. I loved visiting?it felt like stepping back into the 1920s. If you're around Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf, it's totally worth checking out. Ticket is not required.

This place is amazing!!!! They have entertainment machines from the early 1800s to as modern at the 90s. This is a great spot if you want to spend 10 dollars and have some fun!! When I did have a problem you need to find the secret door and knock and you will get some help!! Overall I can't wait to come back!!

A free, entertaining place you can enter and walk through with all the antique games, machines. A great place for families, kids, adults. There's nice labels with history and inspirations with all the machines and plenty of quarter dispensers. We spent $10 in total over the 45 minutes we looked at. We left with a mini rubber duck, a 'fortune' and lots of laughs and memories. This place is clean and the machines are well kept, there are bathrooms to. Please do not bring drink or food, preserve these things!

This was not part of our itinerary and was an unexpected surprise! We came here at the direction of Riley?s for an ATM. We ended up spending an hour here playing vintage games! Totally a great time and a hidden little spot. Highly recommend!

This was a cool find, large space filled with some really old but working coin operated machines and games. We spent $5 between 2 people and had a fun time looking at the old machines and playing a few games. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area

Lots of old vintage arcade games/machines. Most are .$25 - .$50 cents to play. Cool Steam Flyer motorcycle on display. Great family fun here.

If I could give Mus?e M?canique 10 stars, I absolutely would! During a recent trip to San Francisco for my brother?s cancer treatment, we stumbled upon this hidden gem while looking for things to do?and it did not disappoint! In fact, we loved it so much that we ended up visiting three times over our 12-day stay. One of the highlights of our trip was meeting a friend of the owner, who shared some of his favorite machines, told us incredible stories about the museum?s history, and even let us stay late as

This place was so fun. If you like old arcade games you should definitely stop by. I spent way too long playing pinball in this place.

Such a fun place! The museum itself is free and the machines cost on average about 50c-75c, with some outliers being $1 or more (and tons being only 25c). Yes, some of the machines are my quarter ? but they're old machines and it was about the novelty and fun of seeing them. Most of the machines did work and the fortune teller ones gave me my fortunes. It was so much fun and I loved it.

Such a fun and unique place! Mus?e M?canique is full of vintage arcade machines ? many of them over 100 years old ? and the best part is, they actually work! You can play with everything by just adding coins, which makes the experience really interactive and nostalgic. There's a wide variety of machines: old pinball games, fortune tellers, dancing figures, and even some spooky ones. It's great for all ages, and a perfect quick stop if you're already at Fisherman?s Wharf. Definitely worth visiting ? you don?

What a trip back in time! We had so much fun here. This arcade, with collection of machines as old as 1800s, is a precious gem tucked away at the end of an alley on the way from Fisherman?s Wharf to Pier 39. I particularly enjoyed these collection of pictures from the past that you can view from a box. Don't forget to carry the quarters as all the machines run on quarters. The building does have an ATM and bills-to-coins, changer but the lowest bill that you can take out from the ATM is $20 with almost $4 f

If you go to Pier 45, don't hesitate to stop by the mechanical museum. It will take you on a trip back in time 50 years, since most of the games are from many years ago and it's incredible how they are still preserved. The museum is very interesting and will remind you of the movie The Princess Diaries since it's where Princess Mia and her grandmother come to play. I recommend you bring a lot of 25? coins because you're going to need them. Admission is free and you can really have fun. ??

The Museum was fun to visit. With only one major issue. We got it explore coin operated machines from many different decades of history. From peepshows, to love detectors, to musical shows, to cooperative games, and arcade games. We even were able to enjoy many penny crusher machines. This is where the flaw is. They do not provide Penny's in the entire facility and there is one employee only who stays in their closed office most of the time. So we had to wander around to local restaurants and ask to excha

While eating our bread bowls of crab chowder, I saw a sign for an antique coin-operated arcade game museum at Pier 45?! I'd never heard of this place, and it is amazing for a history buff like me! They had so many pictures about the long-lost Playland-At-the-Beach amusement park. And the collection of antique machines and pinball games. So fascinating! And yes, they have my favorite Bally's "The Addams Family" pinball machine, so you know I'll be coming back again and again.

Love this place! Many old arcade games. And they still work! Its free to come in. Just pay a quarter or two to play a game.

Super cool old games. You can play them all. They cost 25 cents and up. You can get quarters onsite.

We ran across this place by accident. I'm so glad we did. Lots of antique games that you can actually play! What a great place to experience all types of entertainment from the past. It's like a museum but so much more fun!

Feel like being amused, overstimulated and maybe a little bit creeped out? This has something for everyone. Showed up on a very busy Saturday and it seemed like all the games were being played. Felt like an interactive time capsule. Well worth a stop inside.

So cool to see the evolution of the arcade and actually play some very vintage games! Highly recommend stopping in while visiting the Fisherman?s Wharf.

Great fun. Free admission and most games are only a quarter or two. The antique machines are so cool to see in action.

A very unique collection of historic coin operated games and entertainment. It's fun just to see the variety and video games from my past.

Wonderful experience. Old memories of bygone days became live as we saw old games still functioning.video game, play baseball, play football, pc man, laughing doll, rifle gallery, boxer,marry go round and get answers etc. one can take their photos in the old style camera. All this for a few cents ranging from two quarters to a dollar. If you forget to bring coins, no worries you can get coins using coins dispensers in lieu of currency notes. I would recommend it for all nineties and earlier people who hav

Fun experience! VERY old games but nice there is no fee to get in. Make sure you have cash since there is no atm. Fun for kids and adults!

Super super unique experience! I love that it's free to enter. Most games are 25 cents to 1 dollar. There are many change machines in the place itself. If you need help, there's a bell you can ring and staff will be with you quite swiftly. One of the staff was on roller blades the whole time which was cute! Some of the machines ate my quarters or were pretty underwhelming, but the plentiful amount of other machines made up for it. There is something for everyone - fortune tellers, vintage baseball games, s

Free to enter. Kinda busy inside with lots of teenagers and visitors enjoying the historic arcade games dating back to the 1800s. Felt Like a historic place to be.

So many cool antiques. Had a great time. It brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for preserving these machines.

I saw about this place on social media and thought I'd just go, take a few pics, walk around a bit and enjoy a game or two. I didn't expect to spend like 1 hour here checking out all of the vintage games and playing them! We played so many games and the ones we played were all like $0.25-0.75 each. So we spent like $6 total and had a really great time. The guy working was so friendly showing us how some of the games worked and it was just an overall really unexpected great time. I definitely recommend it to

Games that are cheap and a blast from the past. I'm really impressed with the selection, from ancient games to even a few new ones, like Star Wars pinball. There's an ATM machine to get cash, and quarter machines $20 may be too much in quarters though because games are so reasonably priced.

This is a arcade/museum place. A unique place to visit and spend some time playing in old/ historic machines and arcades. There are places to change bills for coins. Most of the artifacts use 25 cents/ quarter coins. There are some of the machines with the story or age but not all. Free, not entrance fee or tickets needed

Free admission, just bring your quarters, you're gonna see some great old coin op machines!

Very cool place and brought some real nostalgia. This is very much a place for people who were born before the mid 1990?s. So many arcade machines and old American machines that pre date WW1 in some cases. Definitely recommend a visit especially as it's free.

Haha this place is so fun and worth a visit! So many amazing vintage old arcades and games and it's just pure magic walking through it all and seeing all sorts of things to try out! Highly recommend! And it's free!

Very cheap. Extremely touristy. Lost its old charm as a fisherman's wharf. Now it's just vendors selling cheap stuff. What is the purpose of this place if this is all it is!!

I love this place! It is fun and has a variety of games for the entire family. I removed one star because I have never seen an attendant. On Saturday we really needed someone to break a bill for us so we could keep on playing. For the entire time we spent there, no attendant arrived. If a machine took your money and is not working, nobody can come and help.

Tons of old arcade and pinball machines you can play. They also have a bunch of those penny press machines if you collect those. It was really cool to see some of those older games.

It was a unique and awesome experience! Some games kind of $ucked but it didn't matter because they told a story of a bygone era! We only spent $5 and yet spent an hour looking around and admiring what at some time must have been cutting edge! We loved it. Would 100% recommend. Went with my teen.

One of my favorite GEMS of the city. An antique arcade that is also filled with many current arcade games. Such fun and beauty hidden in these machines. Highly encourage anyone to take a peak for themselves. Very close distance from Fisherman's Wharf where you can pop over for some crepes or donuts after hours of fun. Perfect for the family. But PLEASE be gentle and kind to the machines, hope they continue to stay up and running and operate well. The baseball machines are a personal favorite!

Went on a Tuesday afternoon while visiting from the East Coast. Love that there's no admission fee and you just pay for games as you go. It was fun just to walk through and see some of the old-time games from a century ago. Went with a 5-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy l, and they both played a few games and enjoyed it. For elementary age kids, it's a great way to spend about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how much your kids like the old timey games as well as some other popular ones like Skee-Ball.

Mind-blowing place. A must visit to all tech lovers or gaming lovers. You would like the place even if the rarely game as just the mechanical gaming rigs in the old way are great to marvel at. They are so intricate and elaborate at the same time. Loved the variety of games like Donkey Kong, Atari gaming consoles, whack a mole, etc Lots of varieties and fun place to be in for all age groups.

Not a museum, a time travel machine! "What da' hell's wrong with you Afshin?!", I asked myself after walking in here for the first time in 15+ years of living within walking distance of it! This place is awesome! As I was walking around I often ran into a machine from 70s and 80s that brought back so many memories. It felt like I had traveled back in time! I so clearly remembered how I spent small fortunes on certain machines when I was a high-school or college student! There are over 300 mechanical mach

Popped in the fill a bit of time before our flight home and wow was super impressed with the huge amount of different vintage arcades and machines on offer. Need small change for these which was perfect as we were using up our cash before leaving. Free to get in and we spent a good hour here.

This place is AWESOME! So much history in one building! The place is filled front to back with arcade games old and new and they're all mostly coin machines. Bring your dollar bills! I loved this place because there's so much variety! And the place was featured in The Princess Diaries, which is one of my all time favorite movies. If you have kids or are a kid at heart, this is the place to visit while in San Francisco. Plenty of parking around the area and is just a short walk from Pier 39 and Fisherman?s W

The games are affordably priced. While there are no public restrooms, the wide selection of games and generally uncrowded atmosphere make it a worthwhile visit.

Absolutely awesome place. It's free to enter and most expensive things I found in here was just a $1. They have a wide variety of pinball, arcade, and other quarter taking machines. They have modern things as well as older machines. My personal favorite was the lamp that for a quarter would turn on. This is a place I would go to town just to come back.

Quirky and nice ! Absolutely free to go inside. Just get some quarters for the machines to play some games. Lots of fun !

This is a really cool place featuring antique (and some newer) arcade games! We spent about $30 here playing random games and had a lot of fun! There are games of every kind! Something for everyone! If you're a princess diaries fan this is a fan spot that they filmed in! There are also several ?miniature? scenes you can play for a quarter or two and I personally loved those best! We also thought the old music boxes were really cool! They also have a ?water fueled motorcycle? on display that my husband was

Visited 10/06/2023 Fabulous hidden gem in Fisherman's Wharf. We loved looking at and playing on the old style arcade games that have been lovingly retro-fitted for modern coins. A museum of fun, and was a surprise find during our walk around the Wharf. Would recommend popping in for a visit to have fun back in time.

This place was pretty cool! They had some really old games and everything was really cheap to play. Mostly 25 or 50 cents. Kids would love it! Although I loved it and I'm not a kid. Very nostalgic!

This was such an amazing place full of history. The machines average $0.25-$0.50 but some are a little more expensive. There's an ATM and quarter machines by the entrance. I love the ones that give you a paper fortune! It's easy to spend an hour in here and it wasn't very busy when I went

I really, really enjoyed Musee Mechanique! Fun for literally all ages, and a wonderful place for a couple's date night or family visiting San Francisco. Where else can have so much fun for $10-$20? Playing century-old games was such a trip! So many cool mechanical contraptions in one place, and nearly all of them are still just a quarter to play. There were quite a few stereoscopic picture viewers (not quite sure what they're actually called) that had images of the World's Fair, the San Francisco Earthqua

Great, It's lookng back in time in the amusement arcade. Down memory lane remember some of these machines when they were in regular use. Highly recomended.

What an amazing place! It is free to enter so i hughly reccomend at least browsing through some history. Kids and hubby absolutely loved it. We had a great time trying out the different games. They were all .25-.50 cents for the most part. And they are quarters not tokens. They did have newer ones way in the back but I didn't care to venture to those. Would definitely reccomend!

We are a couple in our 40's travelling alone. This was one of our first stops when we got to SF and we thoroughly enjoyed it! We figured we would stop in for a peak as we walked to pier 39 and ended up staying there for an hour and a half! There were plenty of vintage and antique arcade style games. Many of which I remembered from my childhood. There was no entry fee and plenty of change machines around. For context, I changed a $20 bill and, as the quarters started spilling out, I thought I had made a

A tourist trap that's cheap and worth it. There's so many machines and with them only being a quarter you get to do a lot. There's more modern arcade machines towards the back, but the history of the ancient machines is amazing. Toddler and myself loved it and spent about 2 hours there.

Don't skip this old-fashioned spot featuring antique coin-operated vintage mechanical instruments & games as you stroll the coastline of The Embarcadero. Resist the tempting aroma of Bay Area chowder or fish & chips and step into a world of nostalgia (if you can relate or have heard your grandparents talked about) at Pier 45 near to Taylor Street. This is a treasure chest of privately owned mechanical musical instruments and antique arcade artifacts, which you can play with a quarter or 50 cents. Admissi

Must see! Everything was so beautiful and so affordable. Most games were 25 cents or 50 cents. $20 can get you through almost everything. Fun for the kiddos and for the adults! Went on a weekday so it wasn't packed and had plenty of room to walk around:)

Goodness this place is amazing! Was not what I expected but what a great surprise. Soooooo many cool, antique mechanical games, pianos, etc. and amazingly they all work! Free to get in and most cost a quarter to play. You won't find a better day?s entertainment in SF! Met the owner working on thing that day - super guy! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

It's really cool, if you don't have quarters, they have change machines available for you, free to enter, but if you want to use most of the machines, then they take quarters.

A great place to spend some time while enjoying some old goodies of the old times. Lots of machines to wonder around some are 1 cent to $1 very adorable and entertaining. Makes you appreciate how things worked before

this is such a unique and fun experience. You have to try it if you are visiting fisherman?s wharf, they have hundreds if not thousands of antique arcade machines in this warehouse type of building and you can spend so much time just walking around looking at all of the old machines almost all of them worked and we're quite fun there are no restrooms or snacks or drinks in this building, so bring some if you want to spend a lot of time in here

We had a fun time here. They have a lot of old interactive mechanical games and plenty of arcade games. Price ranges from 25? to 2$ per game. There are also 2 claw machines if you would like to get some souvenir, one of them has 100% win rate, so you will get an item guaranteed. Overall an interesting interactive museum and the entrance is free!

This is a wonderful place of history and games of all types. Free admission, be sure to get at least $20 in quarters if you want to try out the various coin operated machines. These machines are meticulously taken care of and well loved. Mr. Dan Zelinsky is the owner of these beautiful machines most of which is passed down from his father. I remember him from the Cliff House days because of his roller skates which he still uses here. Bring the family, you won't see another place like this in the San Franci

Coolest place in San Francisco! So many fun 80?s games brought back lovely fun memories. Also many antique games that I am amazed by the quality and details. Most games are $.25 or $.50 Make sure you bring small bills for the exchange machines.

Really really cool! Free entrance, if you want to play the games you need to pay.

If you ever wondered "Is there a history of coin operated machines?" You came to the right place! I always have a good time bringing friends here or family from afar. Staff is friendly and will answer any questions you have. But yeah gets that nostalgic itch when the games i played. Overall fun for all ages. Plus, it's next to some eateries so you can chow down afterwards.

Neat place to spend a few dollars looking at all kinds of old automatons and games! Definitely pretty cursed and lots of hilariously dated stuff but its a good time lol

It was super interesting and cool to see old arcade stuff that are 100 years old still being able to perform and everything. I would recommend the self playing instruments in the back. I only ran into one machine not working. You can exchange your bills for quarters in the place.

I went twice nostalgic place great collection of antiques

This place is literally a blast from the past ! Lots of old mechanical anitromic and video games from the turn of the century 20s 30 thirties on up to the 80s . A look into arcade games of the past. Admission is free only cost is just to play the games from 25 cents on up. This is a very fun and inexpensive place the whole family can enjoy .

Amazing stop to enjoy and play some games. All the classics that are now gone at the normal place. There is a Cash to Coin machine. It's super worth at least spending $5 and going crazy. Most machines are 25cents, 50cents, and just a huge gallery of classic old school games from early 1900s. I just recommend being hand sanitizer via you not sure who is touching these machines and how clean other people are. There is basketball as well, Tekken 3, Cruisin The World, Cruising USA, San Francisco Rush, PAC

Amazing collection of vintage and antique games. My favorites are the vintage photo booth ($5) and the horoscope generator, which types out your horoscope on a typewriter as you watch ($0.50). There are machines that will change cash for quarters, but I would recommend bringing smaller bills unless you want $20 worth of quarters. There are also some machines that are only $0.10 or a penny.

Visiting this place felt like a trip back in time to multiple eras many of which I've never even experienced myself. And the best thing is, the vast majority of the games are in dapper condition and just waiting to be played. I spent a total of $1 to play three games, which is not a bad price at all. Plus there's no admission fee so even if you're not in the mood to play, you can just come visit and marvel at the machines.

This place is a lovely 1-3 hours of excitement and maybe $20 dollars spent! I loved going to see all of the mechanical devices from music players to original automatons. Totally fabulous! A nice break from the usual art type museum and great for kids of all ages who like to see how things work.

This place is a gem! Loved meeting the owner, Mr. Zelinsky, while he was rollerskating around, answering questions and keeping the place clean. Best collection of pressed penny machines, vintage games and antique moving dioramas. Take a pocketful of quarters and enjoy reminiscing!

Really cool museum with some very vintage arcade games. Well worth a visit, and typically packed with tourists. We found $21 on the ground on my most recent visit, so keep your eyes peeled for free money.

If you're a fan of the princess diaries, it's a must! Free to enter and you only need a few quarters to have a go! Great little 30 minute walk around