Musée Mécanique
The Musée Mécanique 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 mechanical machines, it is one of the world's largest privately owned collections.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Piotrus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—8:00 PM
- Type: Amusement arcade
- Description: museum in the United States
- Also known as: “Musee Mecanique” and “Musée Mecanique”
- Address: Shed A, Pier 45 Fishermans Wharf, San Francisco, CA 94133
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include USS Pampanito and SkyStar Wheel.
USS Pampanito
Museum
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
USS Pampanito is a Balao-class submarine built for the United States Navy during World War II; it is the third U.S. Navy vessel named for the pompano fish.
SkyStar Wheel
Ferris wheel
SkyStar Wheel is a 150-foot-tall, 137-foot-diameter traveling observation wheel located in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf since November 13, 2023. It has previously operated in San Francisco's Music Concourse, Cincinnati's The Banks, Louisville's Waterfront Park, and Norfolk. SkyStar Wheel is situated 710 feet east of Musée Mécanique.
Lombard Street
Photo: Y6y6y6, Public domain.
Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero. Lombard Street is situated 2,700 feet south of Musée Mécanique.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fisherman’s Wharf and Russian Hill.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Francisco's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.
Russian Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: BDS2006, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".
North Beach
Quarter
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy.
Musée Mécanique
- Categories: museum, tourism, recreation area, and tourist attraction
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.80925° or 37° 48′ 33″ northLongitude
-122.41579° or 122° 24′ 57″ westElevation
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
849VRH5M+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 368166365OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=amusement_arcadeOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Musée Mécanique” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المتحف الميكانيكي”
- Dutch: “Musée Mécanique”
- French: “Musee Mecanique”
- French: “musée Mécanique”
- French: “Musée Mécanique”
- German: “Musee Mecanique”
- German: “Musée Mécanique”
- Italian: “Musee Mecanique”
- Italian: “Musée Mécanique”
- Spanish: “Museo Mécanique”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Musée Mécanique”. Photo: Piotrus, CC BY-SA 3.0.