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In this pinball museum, the art is meant to be touched (with Evan Phillippe)

2026-09-01 · 47 min · episode 2 · 10 entities

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Vote for Call 'Em Like Museum in the 2026 Signal Awards At the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, California, there are very few "don't touch" signs. In fact, this unique collection actually relies on visitors' touch to keep things running smoothly. "They actually function better when they're getting played a lot," says Evan Phillippe, the museum's executive director. "They seize up and they freeze when they don't ... The more they get played, the happier they are." Today on Call 'Em Like Museum, Evan talks about the myriad challenges of maintaining the world's largest playable pinball collection, including what to do with the 1,200 machines that don't fit in the current space. He explains how the museum educates visitors through rooms like "Beyond the Backglass," the first exhibit to celebrate women's contributions to pinball engineering, art, and software. Plus: The small army of volunteers that keeps the games working, what kids who grew up with iPads think of pinball, and the downsides of being thrifty as a nonprofit museum operator. Full transcript of this episode Subscribe to the newsletter This episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod Listen to "Buzzers and Bells," my original short audio story about the Pacific Pinball Museum, on Twenty Thousand Hertz Chapters 00:00 Introduction 03:01 Evan's First Museum Memory 07:12 A Tour of the Pacific Pinball Museum 11:46 Why It's a Museum, Not an Arcade 15:27 Fix-It Nights & Pinball Maintenance 21:46 Getting New Generations Into Pinball 27:19 Visitor Reactions & Pinball Nostalgia 33:17 Investing in the Museum's Future 40:50 Museum Inspiration & Tiny Details of Joy Music: www.purple-planet.com Images: Museum exterior Videos: Suzanne Ciani on Omni: The New Frontier