The olive Museum is located on one of the most important in the Mediterranean territories of growing olive trees – at the Northern tip of the Italian region Liguria, on the Riviera di Ponente. Olive groves here can be seen everywhere – from the coast to inland valleys and high mountains. They take literally every corner, every piece of land suitable for cultivation. The Museum occupies a beautiful building in art Nouveau style, built in the 1920-ies, in the town of Empire. Once it was located the headquarters of the Corporation brothers Carly, and today the house is still owned by this family. In the Museum of olives exhibited an extensive collection of different items illustrating the history of cultivation of the olive tree for almost six thousand years. All these items were collected by the family of Carly.

The olive tree is one of the first trees that people began to cultivate in their order. This happened about five thousand years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean, and soon the production and sale of olive oil became one of the main sources of income of the entire region. Culture itself, thanks to the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans have become critical in the entire Mediterranean basin. To learn about the amazing relationship between the human and the olive tree in the first room of the Museum, which exhibits the remains of the ancient wild olive trees, the remains of the oldest domesticated tree, ancient writings dedicated to olive oil, antique decanters and vessels. In another room you can see the different types of olive trees, as well as images of ancient and modern groves and ancient tools used for the cultivation of olive trees. A separate room is devoted to the use of olive oil in the daily life of our ancestors: the exhibits include wooden vessels for storing oil collected throughout the Mediterranean, glass lamps and lamps, perfume vases, tools, through which oil was smeared in the baths, and furniture made of olive wood. Also in the Museum you can see the blood vessels, which in ancient times oil was transported around the world, ancient mosaic depicting olive, Greek vases of different forms, ceramics, different kinds of steel and cast-iron presses, used in Liguria for the production of oil, manual presses of the early 20th century and modern hydraulic system. Pass by tourists and reconstruction of a Roman ship with amphorae for the transport of oil – he made a life-size.

In addition to the exhibition halls in the Museum is the repository and specialized library dedicated to olives and olive oil. Near the Museum are the modern factory for the production of olive oil and a small building, which usually place for conferences, meetings and other events. And in the garden, among century-old olive trees, there are old mills – Spanish 17th-century Ligurian 19th century and one Spanish of the 19th century.