![]() ![]() Tens of thousands of visitors are entertained each year. ![]() The museum has about fifty vintage penny slot machines, dating from the early 1900s to the 1960s, all in working condition for the public to play. Mechanical Memories Museum is situated on Brighton's seafront, and is the UK's oldest established vintage penny arcade. There's no entrance charge, so its worth popping in if you're passing. The last time we passed by (September 2019), the space was open and you could go in and the machines were still there, but its website appears to have shut down in 2016, and currently shows content in (Chinese?) characters on unrelated subjects, which suggests that the museum may not be fully active. The actual name of the museum seems to have been somewhat flexible, with "A-frame" signage reading " MECHANICAL MEMORIES, Brighton's famous OLD TIME PENNY ARCADE Old Fashioned Fun For Everyone!"Īs of 2018, we're not sure about the museum's current status. The Mechanical Memories Museum is/was a museum of penny arcade machines on Brighton's seafront, next to the Carousel bar. ![]()
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