{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson","title":"In this pinball museum, the art is meant to be touched (with Evan Phillippe)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2843,"description":"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.\n\"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.\"\nToday 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. \n\nFull transcript of this episode\nSubscribe to the newsletter\nThis episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod\nListen to \"Buzzers and Bells,\" my original short audio story about the Pacific Pinball Museum, on Twenty Thousand Hertz\nChapters\n00:00 Introduction\n03:01 Evan's First Museum Memory\n07:12 A Tour of the Pacific Pinball Museum\n11:46 Why It's a Museum, Not an Arcade\n15:27 Fix-It Nights & Pinball Maintenance\n21:46 Getting New Generations Into Pinball\n27:19 Visitor Reactions & Pinball Nostalgia\n33:17 Investing in the Museum's Future\n40:50 Museum Inspiration & Tiny Details of Joy\nMusic: www.purple-planet.com\n\nImages:\nMuseum exterior\n\nVideos:\nSuzanne Ciani on Omni: The New Frontier","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/R3vVVmzGNQz0jMgSg7uznIO-cko06gdiz9lG9pi3elA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MTA0/ZmM2NTdlOTJjZGZk/NDA0MGI2M2IxNmU1/NWE0MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}