Must See Museums: 10 of Europe's Best Kept Secret Museums - With 2 Greek Entries

Must see museums is not as simple as you think. This is why one of Canada's largest and most prestigious travel guides issued a top 10 of the "Best Hidden" museums in Europe, including two Greek ones!

The Parthenon Marbles: Yearning For Aegean Light

It is often said that if the Parthenon Marbles return to Athens would harm the British Museum's identity as a universal museum or as an encyclopedic museum.

On the contrary, it would be one of the greatest universal gestures the British Museum would make to return these objects. The British Museum could thus emerge as a generous Museum, as a truly universal Museum.

Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens; the Virtual Experience

Greece is much more than its ancient past. In the time when the Dark Ages were spreading across Europe, Greece and the whole Asia Minor was home to the Byzantine Empire, the natural continuity of the Roman Empire which was gradually transforming into a Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian mega-state.

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Greek Rebetiko Music Gets UNESCO Heritage Status

Rebetiko, a Greek kind of urban music got an UNESCO heritage status, being on the same heritage side as the Portuguese fado, the Spanish Flamenco, and the American Blues. As mentioned on the UNESCO website: "Rebetiko is a musical and cultural expression directly linked to song and dance that initially spread among the urban lower and working-class populations in the early twentieth century".

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