TOURISMUSFLIPPER

Tourismusflipper
INSTALED IN TRANSPORT MUSEUM LUZERN SINCE 1983
The tourist flipper shows the achievements of tourism in Switzerland. The clever pinball machine by artist Charles Morgan symbolizes everything that is set in motion when a guest is on vacation in Switzerland.
At the beginning of 1985, Charles Morgan was commissioned by the Swiss Tourist Office to build the “Jollyball Machine”. A kind of pinball machine, also known as “Flipper Machine”. The machine is 2.2 meters high and 4.8 meters wide. Morgan made the machine entirely out of scrap metal and new parts.
A metal ball on rails travels through every part of the classic imagery of Switzerland. From Swiss cheese to ski lifts, from Swiss chalets to chocolate. The whole system is operated and driven by over twenty motors. And all of them are unique, because each drive is different in terms of drive output, rotational speed and construction design and thus adapted to the respective requirements.