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LURCH on over to The Flip to try the best selling pinball machine of all time! by @theflipchicago

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3 days ago

What the heck is a "gobble hole?" Find out now, then try one at The Flip! by @theflipchicago

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11 days ago

Pinball history is fun’s history.
Pinball history is Chicago’s history.
Pinball history is our history.

From the wooden bagatelle tables of the 1800s to the flashing lights of today ,watch the full evolution of pinball in 80 seconds.

Come experience it yourself at The FLIP: Chicago’s playable pinball museum in the heart of the Loop @blockthirtyseven Play every machine, feel the history, and discover how Chicago shaped the game we love.

Featuring incredible artist installations like:
✨ Alonso Galue – Push-On: The Prophet of the Extra Life
✨ Ed Paschke – Blackout (Williams collaboration)

Human evolution and gameplay = Pure magic.

Machines featured in the reel (selection):

Lightning (1934), Teacher’s Pet (1965), Aztec (1976), Eight Ball Deluxe (1982), Comet (1985), Godzilla (2021), Pokémon (2026), and many more!

📍 Lower level, Block 37 – 108 N State St

🎟️ Unlimited play — all ages welcome

If you love art and pinball drop a ☄️below!

#contemporaryart #ChicagoPinball #PinballHistory #ChicagoMuseums #gaming taken in Block Thirty Seven by @theflipchicago

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19 days ago

Alright Chicago, listen UP!

Chicago's playable pinball museum is now open! They have 30+ machines and you'll get to play them all with your ticket 🎟️ purchase. We just happened to walk by during opening weekend and had a blast! You've gotta get there!

@theflipchicago 📍
Block 37, 108 N State St, Chicago

#pinball #chicagobucketlist #chicagoland #chicagogram by @theflipchicago

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The Flip: Chicago’s Playable Pinball Museum is now open to the public! ☄️✨

Step into the evolution of fun through pinball going from a Bagatelle table from the 1800s, to electro-mechanical Chicago-made machines of the 1940s, iconic collaborations like Ed Paschke’s 1980s pinball, and meet Push-On: The Prophets of the Extra-Life by Alonso Galue.

This functional pinball altar and mural installation dives into themes of continuation, possibility, and existing between forces beyond our control. In this almost meditative game, the steel ball becomes a metaphor for the human journey. Surrounding elements feature condors, snakes, and nature spirits; the board is engraved with cloud shapes, offering a bird’s-eye view of an ancient world.

The figures draw inspiration from sculptures in the collections of @museodeloro (Bogotá) and Museo Arqueológico de Mérida @museoarqueologicoula (Venezuela).

Condors a recurring motif represent the sacred bird connecting gods and humans. El Mohan, the religious leader of native Andean Venezuelans, would transform into a condor to receive divine messages and bring them back to the people.

Now transformed into a living altar, Push-On connects the gods we carry with the new worlds that received us. It’s a powerful example of union and the birth of new syncretisms in our communities.

The machine links directly to a mural through an outlet hole, as if drawing energy from a painted landscape where an ancient snake, older than language, shapes mountains, creates rivers, and builds life.

Visitors stand for a moment in the space between the ancient, the mechanical, nature, and urbanity.

Museum Hours:

Monday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Private tours by appointment only

📍 @blockthirtyseven – Lower Level, 108 N State St #15, Chicago, IL 60602

Come experience Push-On and play through history! 🔥
@theflipchicago @a.galue

Push-On is possible thanks to the generous support of the @ignitefundchi @3artschicago @warholfoundation

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a month ago

We're FLIPPING out over this drone tour of The Flip, courtesy of the amazing Landon Keller at OptiView Productions (optiviewproductions.com)!

Enjoy the fly-through... then come experience Chicago's Playable Pinball Museum yourself!

NOW OPEN on the Pedway level of Block 37! by @theflipchicago

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a month ago

Visited The Flip this morning. It’s a new museum devoted to pinball machines in Block 37. This weekend is their grand opening. taken in The Flip: Chicago's Playable Pinball Museum by @theflipchicago

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a month ago

The Flip GRAND OPENING celebration is this weekend, June 12 - 14!

ALL WEEKEND:
Coin-Up Tournament

FRIDAY:
Ribbon Cutting - 4pm

SATURDAY:
Breakfast - 10am
Pinball Industry Appreciation - 1pm to 5pm
Alonso Galue Art Opening - 5pm to 8pm

SUNDAY:
Kids Scavenger Hunt by @theflipchicago

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2 months ago

We are so excited to see you this weekend for our grand open! We have events scheduled all weekend 🎉 by @theflipchicago

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2 months ago

Push-On: The prophet of the Extra-Life by Alonso Galue. - Functional Pinball Altar inspired by the Ancestral Andean traditions. -

The Flip Museum Grand Opening
June 12-14 PWYC tickets

The Flip Museum is pleased to present Push-On: The Prophet of the extra Life, a pinball machine turned into a functional sculpture inspired by the Venezuelan and Colombian Ancestral Andean traditions of the Timotocuica and Tairona sculptures including a mural as part of the installation. Portraying the new identities of our contemporary society with a Venezuelan-Chicagoan syncretism.

This project was made possible thanks to the support of 3Arts Chicago, Andy Warhol Foundation, Ignite Fund.

Open:
Monday to Saturday
11:00 am - 8 pm
Sundays 11:00 am - 6 pm
accesible via CTA’s blue and red line Washington Station.
Entrance is donation for the museum
Block 37 - Lower level 108 N State St 15, Chicago, IL 60602.
IG: @theflipchicago // @a.galue

#pinball #ancestral #contemporaryart #chicago #andes taken in The Flip: Chicago's Playable Pinball Museum by @theflipchicago

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2 months ago

Pokemon Premium now accepting your quarters at The Flip Chicago... no admission required!

Swing by and catch 'em all! by @theflipchicago

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2 months ago

The Flip is now open!

Come join us at Block 37 (108 N. State, Chicago), downstairs on the Pedway level!

Mon - Sat: 10a - 8p
Sun: 11a - 6p by @theflipchicago

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