Museo dell'olivo e dell'olio
The Museo dell'Olivo e Dell'Olio ( Olive and Olive Oil Museum ) is a privately owned, topic -specific museum in Torgiano, located in a building that was an oil mill until the 1960s. Its collections with objects from the fields of applied art and everyday culture document the cultivation and oil extraction techniques and demonstrate the use that people from the olive tree and its oil made , which originated customs and symbolic meanings in this context.
History
The Museo dell'Olivo e Dell'Olio was opened in 2000 on the initiative and under the direction of the Lungarotti Foundation. Together with the Museo del Vino in Torgiano, the Wine Museum of the Foundation, it belongs to the Sistema Museale Umbria, Umbrian Museums administration.
The museum's collections
Drawings depicting the different indigenous tree species in Umbria oil run into the area, which presents the botanical characteristics of the plant, the traditional and modern cultivation techniques. A driven with the help of animals millstone and a water-powered grinding mill show next to a photo documentation and text panels, the development of oil extraction techniques. Then discusses the mythological aspects. An Attic rotfiguriges Alabastron that is the Foundry Painter (5th century BC) attributed shows Athena, the goddess who has made the olive tree according to legend, the people as a gift. Other exhibits show that the goddess - was involved in domestic work of women in agriculture, shipbuilding and military technology - as the guardian of technical knowledge. In the space of Landscape parcel maps and maps are on display as well as objects, a throwback to the Grand Tour, a testimony to the fascination which were engaged in the often encountered in Umbria olive groves on travelers, their interest in the landscape in their diaries in words or sketches brought to expression. The following rooms are concerned with the traditional uses of olive oil. The oldest as a light source is in the form of an oil lamp collection with specimens of the pre-classical to neo-classical period. The ritual use of olive tree and olive oil in Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith, the role of the plant and its fruit for food, in sport, in the preparation of Salb and fragrance oils in the Sigillography, in weaving, cabinet-making and other activities are the focal points of the other halls. The topic of the symbolic, inherited from the ancient meanings, the award sacred meaning and magical- therapeutic effect of the olive tree and its oil, is at the center of the last room.
Credentials
Bibliography
- Maria Grazia Marchetti Lungarotti, Olive and Oil Museum. Itinerary, Fondazione Lungarotti, Perugia, 2002
- John Train, The Olive. Tree of civilization, Scala Books in associations with Antique Collectors ' Club, 2004