Olive and Olive Oil Museum

This is in my experience a unique and interesting place. It is a museum that traces the olive tree from wild to cultivated, with all its varieties and traces the use of the olive through the centuries for food, medicine, oil and more. Finally, they trace olive oil production methods over time. The 1st picture is a summary chart of all of this.
The 2nd picture is of replicas of different olive oil amphorae from different time periods. The 3rd looks at various types of lamps that used olive oil for its fuel source.
The last 3 pictures are in the museum's outdoor space where they have built replicas of original olive crushing and pressing equipment that has been found in Greece and Cyprus. The 4th and 5th pictures are olive crushers, and the last is an olive press.Read more