Spain is beyond a doubt the birthplace and the historical focal point of the guitar. So why is there no national museum, why don’t we talk about the guitar heroes the way we do Velazquez, Cervantes, Goya, Buñuel, Dalí, Picasso, Lorca or Lola Flores? There are a few museums or cultural centres with a very narrow focus but even those are underfunded and ignored. One example of a great museum honouring a true star of the classical guitar is the Andrés Segovia museum in Linares which is visited by tourists and scholars, guitarists and guitar-makers. This newspaper article is a plea to the the different levels of government to recognize the importance of the this man and the work that has already gone into preserving that (our) heritage.