Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments, Musical instruments museum in Oia, Greece.

The Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments houses over 200 musical pieces displayed across three exhibition spaces inside an old community building. The collection spans from roughly 2800 BC to the early 1900s.

The museum opened in 1997 in a restored three-storey building in the Ladadika district of Thessaloniki. Its initial collection of over 200 instruments, reconstructed with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from pictorial and literary evidence, remained there until 2010. It is now in Oia, Santorini.

The collection shows how Greeks made music across thousands of years and which instruments mattered in their daily lives. You can see how the shapes and materials changed over time, from the oldest periods to modern times.

The museum occupies a restored three-storey building in the Ladadika district, in the centre of Thessaloniki, where it was housed from 1997 until 2010. Its three exhibition spaces, music library, electronic score archive and musicology research department are all indoors, so a visit does not depend on weather. Look for the building in Ladadika rather than in Oia, Santorini, where the collection later moved.

Each instrument in the display is accompanied by images showing how it actually looked and was used in ancient times. Audio samples let visitors hear the authentic sounds these old pieces produced, deepening understanding of their role in history.