Michigan’s nostalgic vintage arcade, museum locking its doors after this weekend

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – This is one of those places which gives you all the feels.

One of Michigan’s most nostalgic spots is locking its doors this Sunday night after being located in the same spot for decades. It will soon be located elsewhere.

Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum has been a destination and attraction at a strip mall on Orchard Lake at 14 Mile in Farmington Hills since 1990.

The part arcade, part museum will be demolished to make way for other developments.

Marvin’s owner, Jeremy Yagoda, said he vowed this would not be the end of what his father Marvin, who passed way in 2017, started.

After Marvin’s closes this Sunday evening, relocation will soon begin to the Orchard Mall on the NE corner of Maple and Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield.

Yagoda says it is expected to take a few months to make the move to the new building which will expand the museum from 5,300 sq. ft. to around 14,000 sq. ft.

“We will take a couple days to relax before we start the move,” Yagoda wrote on Facebook. “I do not have a date for the reopening yet as the build out will take some time. Sad to leave Farmington Hills as the whole city has been MARVELOUS, but this was the best location we found. Time to start the next chapter for MMMM.”

Marvin’s will be open on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.