The museum of Markos Vamvakaris is located in Ano Syros and is housed in the two-storey house where he was born in 1905. The museum contains photographs, musical instruments, manuscripts with lyrics and personal items, including his ring, clock and identity card. , even his clothes and shoes. The Markos Vamvakaris Museum started operating in 1995, twenty-three years after that February when the voice of the rebetiko song teacher went out in Nikaia-Piraeus. The Municipality of Ano Syros aspires, in from the Museum, to make even more known the life and art of Markos Vamvakaris, which present a wonderful field for research and may even shake some easy characterizations such as the "song of the file and the prison" and some theories about with its rebetiko song and its history.
