The creation of the Museum of Olive Oil and Peasant Civilization of Zagarise (Cz) is a step forward in the path for the diffusion and knowledge of the culture related to the territory of Sila, in particular of Sila Piccola. The Museum of Olive Oil and Peasant Civilization is not a "traditional" museum: it is in fact an ecomuseum. The three essential components of each ecomuseum, which constitute at the same time its substance, content and working method, are territory, population (the real subject-object of the ecomuseum) and heritage, understood not as a part (be it ethnography or art or archaeology), but as everything to which the community has attributed sufficient value to be manifested over time.
The creation of an ecomuseum, therefore, must be considered the goal of a research path that has as its theme the local culture and its preservation and dissemination.
