Musee Mecanique San Francisco

Pier 45, Fishermen's Wharf, foot of Taylor Street San Francisco , California, United States - Phone: 415-346-2000
  • Traveler Rating 4.50
    122 reviews 9 travel blogs 11 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Sports museum, Other, Specialty museum, Museum complex

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    10of 600 attractions in San Francisco

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  • 1

    Cloudy San Francisco

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    ... but it was pretty tough so I did not do so well! Fisherman’s Wharf is one the busiest tourist attraction in San Francisco and is full of restaurants and stands that serve fresh seafood, most notably Dungeness crab and clam chowder served in a ...

  • 2

    Sightseeing in San Francisco and dinner at Coi

    ... sub in Kaliningrad.  I'll have to try again another day. On the same pier as the sub is the Musee Mecanique, a museum full of vintage coin-operated arcade attractions dating from the 1880s, including fortune--telling machines, player pianos, photo ...

  • 3

    Fisherman's Wharf and Alcatraz

    4 photos

    ... , or pulling a crab apart. It was not a good place to be a crab. At the end of this street we found the Musee Mecanique, a hall full of traditional old penny arcade games. For a few quarters we played Pong, had our horoscopes read and got our photos ...

  • 4

    Every Englishman deserves a castle

    6 photos

    ... , bashed over the head, or crammed in a tank with hundreds of others waiting to die. San Francisco is not a good place to be a crab. The Musee Mecanique holds several hundred ancient arcade games which can be played for just a quarter or two. I’d ...

  • 5

    Crooked streets and a bazillion steps

    8 photos

    ... rags as part of my sunburn management strategy, so I don't look like a complete tourist ass. Then I headed over to Musee Mecanique on pier 43, a free, time-warped arcade with mechanical fortune tellers circa Big, nickelodeons and quirky games like an ...

  • 6

    2. In Walking Distance

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    ... relax, play music, or sell their ware. On certain days, you can catch a flea market, farmer’s market, or a concert. Musee Mecanique, on Pier 45 (at the end of “Crab Row”), is a museum of automatons and several other antique machines. ...

  • 7

    Rain rain go away

    ... fashioned streetcar, and tried the famous clam chowder in a sour dough bread bowl (really yummy!) We then visited the musee mecanique which housed a collection of olde time arcade games (think fortune teller from the movie big). This was ...

  • 8

    San Francisco - Day 2 and 3

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    ... to a bench, was attacked by bold and vicious seagulls who managed to steal some of my squid. Then we went to Musee Mecanique that boasts a lot of ancient automata and even some not-so-ancient-but-profoundly-obsolete computer game machines. After lunch ...

  • 9

    San Francisco Fog Blues

    44 photos

    ... que l'on peut. Et bien sûr, parfois ça ne se passe pas comme prévu ou espéré! Ma troisième journée à San Francisco a été exactement une journée comme ça. Je suis parti marcher avec ma colocataire japonaise, qui n'avait absolument rien de ...