Olive Museum is located in one of the most important in the Mediterranean areas of cultivation of olive trees - at the northern tip of the Italian region of Liguria, on the Riviera di Ponente. Olive groves are seen everywhere - from the coast to inland valleys and high mountains. They take literally every corner, every piece of land suitable for cultivation. The very same museum occupies a beautiful building in the Art Nouveau style building dating back to 1920, in the town of Imperia. Once it housed the headquarters of corporations brother Charles, and today the house is still owned by the family. The Museum of Olive exhibited a vast collection of different objects that illustrate the history of olive tree cultivation for nearly six thousand years. All these items were collected Carli family.

Olive Tree - this is one of the first trees which man began to cultivate their own purposes .  This happened about five thousand years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, and soon the production and sale of olive oil was one of the main sources of income of the region .  The very culture thanks to the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans also developed into an important around the Mediterranean basin .  Meet the amazing history of the relationship between man and the olive tree can be in the first hall of the museum, which displays the remains of the ancient wild olives, the remains of the oldest domesticated tree, ancient writings devoted to olive oil decanters and old 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 olives .  A separate room is devoted to the use of olive oil in the daily lives of our ancestors among the exhibits - wooden containers to store oil collected throughout the Mediterranean, glass lamps and lighting fixtures, perfume vases, tools, through which oil smeared in the baths, and furniture made of olive tree .  Also in the museum you can see the blood vessels, which in ancient times oil was transported around the world, the ancient mosaic of olive trees, the ancient Greek vases of various forms, ceramics, various types of steel and cast-iron presses, used in Liguria for oil production, hand presses the start 20 century, modern hydraulic systems .  Do not pass by, tourists and the reconstruction of the Roman ship with amphoras to transport oil - he made a life-size . 

In addition to the exhibition halls in the museum store, and has a specialized library dedicated to olives and olive oil. Next to the museum is a modern factory for the production of olive oil and a small building, which are usually held conferences, meetings and other events. And in the garden, among century-old olive trees, are old mill - Spanish 17th century Ligurian 19th century Spanish and one of the 19th century.