Athens pinball museum

[Mooseman]

So in Athens for a few days after a lovely cruise. Looked up this place.
A guys wife (keeper) buys her husband his first pin, Dracula in 2017. Guy is obviously very impressed as one year later he opens this pinball museum with 107 pinballs, all sourced from Greece. It opened in 2018 but is now sadly permanently closed.

There doesn’t seem to be much info about when it actually closed. Probably covid related. Where are those 107 pins now?? That’s the question?
What’s really sad though is I knew the place had closed down before I left the ship but still dragged my mrs moose along (deffo keeper) just to see if there were any remanents of the place still there.

 

[replicas]

Like you say Moose, we’re are those 107 machines now?

 

[Mooseman]

The owner is Panos Bitharkas if anyone knows him

 

[Mooseman]

Its Never Game Over | Athens Insider

A shrine for avid gamers and competitive types with a taste for the old, the Athens Pinball Museum hopes to bring back the nostalgia and recharge the Athenian public’s love of this pastime. Panos Bitharkas speaks to Sudha Nair-Iliades on why he believes pinballs are here to stay. It all started...

www.athensinsider.com

 

[windoesnot]

Like you say Moose, we’re are those 107 machines now?

Probably all tombstoned with @Arv

 

[JT.]

99.9% sure this is him if someone wants to contact him on LinkedIn and ask : https://www.linkedin.com/in/panos-bitarchas-7a855634/?originalSubdomain=gr

 

[replicas]

Road Trip……….

 

[Klocic]

It would seem the owner has passed a few months ago This would explain why it has closed.

From LinkedIn:

 

[Ryker]

I was in Athens just over a week ago and my first reaction on seeing this post was omg, I can’t believe I’ve missed this. Then I read the rest of the post and the sad news that the owner has passed. I’m guessing the collection will probably be split up and sold

 

[Tilt_Birmingham]

Its been closed for years...

 

[Klocic]

Its been closed for years...

That’s unfortunate

 

[Mooseman]

Yeah the museum died long before the owner. Covid time. It’s still a mystery as to what happened to his collection amassed in just one year and sourced only from Greece I think I read.

 

[Klocic]

Yeah the museum died long before the owner. Covid time. It’s still a mystery as to what happened to his collection amassed in just one year and sourced only from Greece I think I read.

Yeah that's a lot of machines!