Description
In this museum you will find ancient beings of the labouring of the fields, of the care and treatment of our land. It is a tour of the culture and tradition of the town of Villanueva del Archbishop.
The building we currently know by ethnographic museum of oil was acquired in the 1920s by the UGT and the PSOE for the realization of the village house. This property was an old house that was reformed by these instructions.
After the war, he was expropriated by the regime to use the Agrarian Chamber. When democracy came, the socialist party claimed ownership of the state and it gave it, in an economic way, the amount for which it was valued.
Over time the Agrarian Chamber passes to the Junta de Andalucía and then to the municipality.
Before the removal of the Agrarian Chamber makes a lease for 50 years to the cooperatives, when the town council takes over the property and is going to make the writing is found with that contract. In this contract, cooperatives are required to maintain and maintain the building and its use is of an agricultural nature. A number of agreements are reached from the town hall and a new lease is made from the bottom of the building for 50 years, where the Rural Fund was located.
In 2023 this space is opened to house an Ethnographic Museum of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. The main source of the villanovense economy where its roots and agricultural culture are shown
