Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments

The Greek Museum is situated in a charming and beautiful nineteenth-century home built around 1840. Nearly 1200 odd musical instruments are on display in the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments. All of the displays depict the evolution of Greek music over the last 5000 years. The museum's extensive collection is distributed across three floors. The instruments in the exhibit are classified as percussion, wildwood, strings, brass, and keyboard. The exhibitions on the various floors also feature a variety of tambourines and percussions constructed from dried mud, as well as bagpipes, flutes, and violins. Some are very fascinating, particularly the Greek Shepherds' flutes made of goatskin.

Other amazing items include cane flutes coated in snakeskin and flutes crafted from predatory bird eggs. Visitors may also admire the box lyres and baglamas, which are classic Greek string instruments constructed of wood or tortoiseshell. You may listen to brief sections of the instruments while walking through the museum and inspecting the displays. The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments is not well-known, but it is worth a visit if you enjoy music and have an ear for sounds. Discovering rare and unusual instruments is both interesting and exciting.

Location: 1-3, Diogenous Str., Plaka, Athens, Greece

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