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Tomato Industrial Museum

Tomato Industrial Museum

The old tomato factory D. Nomikos at Vlychada of Santorini converted in 2014 to Industrial Tomato Museum, which also functions as a contemporary multipurpose space for art and cultural events (Santorini Arts Factory).

The Industrial Tomato Museum offers its visitors a flashback to the past, following the course of cultivation, processing and production of tomatoes.

The exhibits of the Museum include processing machines from 1890, old factory handwritten books, old tools, the first labels, as well as audiovisual material with taped stories of people who worked in the factory.

The museological study is extremely successful and the course in the museum follows the phases of processing the tomato per machine and at the same time the history of evolution of the factory, since Dimitrios Nomikos began to produce tomato paste in the craft of pre-industrial technology in Messaria in 1915. In 1922 he makes in Monolithos a "One of the first canneries in the Balkans", as he said, with state-of-the-art technology brought from abroad.

1945 o George Nomikos, son of Demetrius, builds the factory in Vlychada - the one that was turned into a Museum - in the center of the most productive tomato area in Santorini, with a capacity of 3,500 coffins per day. The interesting thing is that the factory did not only produce santorini peltes, but also its canned food. Inside the factory, a small box factory was created that made the cans from tinplate, while the fuel of the steam boiler was initially coal from Kimi and later fuel oil.

Until that time, in the late 1950s, 9 factories were operating on the island, the production is at its peak and the products are loaded in boats from the beach and sold all over Greece, having the advantage of the early production, and the tomato is the red gold that creates employment and relative prosperity on the island.

In the years to come, tourism will grow rapidly, while tomato cultivation will shrink dramatically, forcing the plant to close permanently after the last summer production of 1981.

The restoration of this space 30 years later is one act of historical memory, an offer to the current society of Santorini, but also a tool for international promotion of the cultural identity of the island.

Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Legal"

Working hours:
Daily 10: 00-18: 00.

  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide
  • Tomato Industrial Museum - Santorini - Greek Gastronomy Guide

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