Adatepe Olive Oil Museum

Turkey’s first and only olive oil museum opened in July 2001. Olive oil culture is so deeply rooted that it was mentioned in almost all sacred books. Although, olive production dates back to pre-historic times in Turkey, much of its history is being forgotten in modern times. The goal of the Adatepe Olive Oil Museum is to preserve the literary and visual history of olive oil production in Turkey, or as it was previously called, Anatolia.
The owners of the traditional Adatepe Olive Oil factory have restored their abandoned antique soap factory building in Kucukkuyu county of Canakkale province and re-designed it to serve as a traditional cold press olive oil factory which will also display various precious artifacts related to olive culture, collected from the local villagers. Those fortunate visitors who stop by the museum in late autumn and winter months will be amazed at the very simple procedure of olive oil extraction by the traditional methods.