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Travel with Rick Steves

684 Obscure Museums; Peloponnesian and Mythical Greece

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Rick checks in with Dylan Thuras from Atlas Obscura to discuss a few of their favorite small, sometimes eccentric museums around the world. Then author Peter Fiennes describes some of the real sites where Greek myths were set, and how they can speak to us today. And two historian tour guides share some of their top reasons to visit the Peloponnese, the giant peninsula just an hour's drive south of Athens.

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0:00.0

Sometimes your best travel memories can come from the strangest places.

0:04.6

Dylan Thurse from Atlas Obscura tells us about some of his favorite discoveries at small and unusual museums around the world.

0:12.0

It lives in that space between the imagined and the fantastical and the plausible.

0:19.0

When you visit Greece, you soon realize that the whole country is a living museum.

0:24.0

Arthur Peter Fights went to the site of famous Greek myths to see what you might learn from these same places today.

0:31.0

It has everything that you could want in Greece.

0:33.0

All in a very small area, and that's what I love about it. It's so easily manageable.

0:37.5

We'll also get ideas to enjoy a day or even a week on the Greek mainland.

0:42.0

We get seasoned advice from tour guides for exploring the Peloponnesian Peninsula.

0:47.0

There's so much of it. It's not all tended or locked to end museums. It is often, as you say, just down a dusty track.

0:53.0

Come along for the adventure in the hour ahead. It's travel with Rick Steves.

1:00.0

During the pandemic, British author Peter Fights made several trips to Greece.

1:05.0

He was looking for signs of how ancient Greek mythology could help shed light on how we confront the challenges of today.

1:13.0

Peter tells us what he found a little later in the hour.

1:16.0

And Greek tour guides help us experience the heart of Greece on the Peloponnesian Peninsula.

1:22.0

Let's start today's travel with Rick Steves, looking at a collection of quirky small museums

1:27.0

that offer some truly one-of-a-kind exhibits.

1:31.0

Your appreciation for a city can increase a lot when you discover some of its more obscure museums.

1:37.0

And that's a focus of the Atlas Obscure website.

1:40.0

Co-founder and author Dylan Thurus is back with us on Travel with Rick Steves

1:44.0

to look at some of the more obscure and fascinating little museums you'll find all around the world.

1:49.0

Hey Dylan.

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