The Olive and Oil Museum illustrates the tradition of olive growing through period images and stories. Grafters, pruners and harvesters narrate the labours of this millenary work, which starts from the grafting of the olive tree on the olive tree to the transformation of the olives into oil.
Zappe, picks, grafting knives, millstones and jars, simple instruments unchanged over time, accompany the story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It evokes the care and attention that the Asquer family, a noble feudal family of Ligurian lineage, gave to olive and oil production, in particular in the person of Don Gavino Asquer Pes, who, attracted by innovations, introduced a modern and functional oil mill in the residence. Next to the nineteenth-century oil mill are exhibited the most recent machinery of the second half of the twentieth century.
