For Father's Day, my wife prodded me into visiting the National Pinball Museum. We enjoyed three fascinating hours there learning about the history of pinball and the future plans for David Silverman's museum.

Pinball machine collector David Silverman brought nine of his games to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC on Halloween Day 2009 to promote his planned National Pinball Museum. Smithsonian visitors could play Silverman's games before and after his 90-minute lecture about pinball history and art.