MUSEUM OF GREEK POPULAR INSTRUMENTS

The Museum of Popular Instruments – Research Center for Ethnomusicology (MELMOKE) comprises the 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 Phoibos Anoyanakis.

The Museum is housed in the historical Lassanis Mansion, which was built in 1824 close to the Roman Agora.

THE ADDRESS

Museum of Greek Popular Instruments
Dyogenous Street 1-3
10558 Athens - Plaka (Greece)
Tel. +30 210 - 3250198

HOW TO GET THERE

BY FOOT: From Monastiraki Square, follow Ermou Street towards Syntagma and turn right onto Aiolou Street. After 200 meters turn left onto Dyogenous Street, where the Museum of Greek Popular Instruments is located.

• Official Site of the Museum of Greek Popular Instruments

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