Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum is an insanely cool collection of vintage and antique animatronics, pinball machines, arcade cabinets, penny-arcades, nickelodeons, and a million other creepy-cool-crazy old coin-op contraptions from yesteryear. It’s a one-of-a-kind exhibit and I love that it’s right here in Michigan. Here are a couple local news stories that sum up this delightful slice of mechanized whimsy and automated buffoonery:

If that sounds cool to you, please consider signing the petition on change.org. As a fellow believer in the positive power of silliness, I’ll end with a quote from the late founder of the Marvelous Mechanical Museum:

“Wouldn’t the world be better off if we took nonsense more seriously?”

Marvin Yagoda