Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines

Moscow · Russia

Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines, Russia
Photo: Hanno Böck, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Year-round
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
Open in maps

This Moscow museum preserves dozens of functioning coin-operated arcade games manufactured in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s. Visitors receive old kopeck-style tokens and play restored cabinets ranging from submarine periscope shooters to driving and sports games, most produced by defence factories as civilian sidelines. Beyond nostalgia, the collection documents a little-known corner of Soviet consumer technology and design, with a vintage soda machine completing the atmosphere.

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