Chios Mastic Museum

The Chios Mastic Museum opened its doors to the general public in 2016. It is housed in a particularly-created constructing on a plot of land ceded by way of the Chios Mastic Growers Association. It capabilities below the duty of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation and this for a length of fifty years considering the fact that its creation. The museum building is comprised of two parallel wings, half of embedded within the ground, following the natural slope. These are blanketed via two massive timber roofs, leaning counter to the slope.

One enters from the top wing, via the blanketed passage among the price ticket office and the multipurpose space. The permanent exhibition centres on Chios mastiha as a unique natural product. The introductory module provides facts on the mastic tree and mastíha, its resin, which in 2015 became regarded as a herbal medicinal drug. The first module offers the traditional expertise of mastic cultivation. The 2nd module focuses on how coping with the cultivation and its produce formed the agricultural landscape and the settlements of southern Chios and the Mastichochoria traditionally.

The 0.33 module is dedicated to mastíha resin’s cooperative exploitation and processing nowa days, which marks an vital chapter in the productive history of Chios. Particular mention is made to the uses underpinning why mastíha has a global presence these days. The museum revel in is completed in the outdoor exhibition, in which the public comes into contact with the plant itself and the natural habitat it flourishes in.