Cyclades Olive Museum

Chelmis Olive Mill

The more we realize how much our life and our civilization is connected to the olive tree and its products and the more the techniques and methods of olive oil production are being developed, the more necessary it becomes - in a rapidly changing world - the preservation and exhibition of traditional, animal powered oil-mills. Besides, most of them have ceased working since the late 60's. One of the best preserved old oil-mills in Andros island, Chelmis in Pitrofos, was restored and transformed into museum, in order to offer to every visitor, regardless of age, the option to come close to the underling culture of the valuable product and to get acquainted with the old traditional techniques of its production as well.

The museum with it's equipment is an excellent monument of: a) Agricultural tradition, b) Preindustrial technology and c) Architectural tradition