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Inaugurated in 2000 and built on the site of an olive press still active just decades ago, the museum exhibits artefacts pertaining to the origins and mythology of the olive, its use as a source of light and in religion, medicine, nutrition, sport, cosmetics, and heating. It also explores influences on the collective cultural imagination where propitious, symbolic and healing qualities have been attributed to the olive tree and to the olives themselves. lungarotti foundationOpened in 1987, the charter of the Foundation is to showcase the Italian agrarian economy with cultural activities such as exhibitions, conventions and publications, to manage and preserve the two Lungarotti museums and the numerous historical artifacts they have on display and to promote the traditional crafts that have a long-standing and consolidated history in Umbria. photo gallery
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