Upper floor

ECONOMY - USES - IDEOLOGY
1. The olive tree in the Mediterranean Sea
2. The earliest finds
3. The earliest written evidence
4. The role of olive oil in the palatial economy of the prehistoric Aegean
5. Olive oil in the ancient economy
6. Olive oil in the economy of the Byzantine empire
7. Transporting olive oil
8. Olive oil in the economy of Greece during the Venetian occupation, the Ottoman period and in recent times
9. Uses of the olive
10. Diet
11. Lighting
12. Oil lamps and hanging lamps
13. Personal toilet
14. Aromatic oils and perfume flasks
15. The symbolic dimension of the olive and olive oil
16. Cult and customs
17. Christian worship and folk rituals
18. The olive in art

BOTANY - TECHNOLOGY
1. The natural environment of the olive tree
2. Taxonomy and morphology
3. Olive cultivars
4. From the olive to the olive oil

Ground floor



OUTDOOR EXHIBITION
5 Olive cultivation and olive picking
6.  Prehistoric oil-pressing installations
7. Ancient oil-pressing installations
8. Byzantine oil-pressing installations

TECHNOLOGY
9. Postbyzantine oil-pressing installations
9Α. Manually operated oil presses
9Β. Separation - Storage
10. Pre-industrial animal-powered oil-pressing installations
10Α. Storage
11. Water-powered oil-pressing installations
12. Industrial oil-pressing installations
13Α. Domestic soap production
13Β. Pre-industrial and early industrial soap-making
14. Mechanization of the oil-pressing installations
15. Olive kernel oil extraction - Refining - Industrial soap-making
16. The Linardakis factory
17. The development of the oil industry in Greece
18. Oil-pressing installations in the Peloponnese
19. Museums of the olive in the Mediterranean

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