If you are a music lover visiting Greece, you should head straight to a different type of museum, the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments located in Plaka.

The Museum of Popular Instruments – Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (MELMOKE) houses a collection of about 1200 Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present day, the fruit of a half century of research and study by the musicologist Fivos Anoyanakis.

The Museum is housed in the historical Lassanis Mansion, which was built in 1842 close to the Roman Agora. According to its official site, the instruments on display have been selected on the criterion not only of their aesthetic and decorative value but, in particular, of their ethnological and musicological interest.

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