Bracco Historical Archive

The Archives preserve the Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association of the then Italian Product Company E. Merck-Società anonima (1 June 1927), the minutes of the Shareholders' Meetings from 1 July 1927, the inventory and balance books, the latter from 1968, the workers and employees registers from 1 July 1927 and the personnel files. Also important is the documentation relating to the history of products, starting from 1929 up to today's state-of-the-art contrast agents; also significant is the documentation relating to company trademarks, contracts and decrees for the registration of medicines sold in Italy starting from 1929. There are also price lists, postcards and advertising brochures from the 1930s onwards; technical data sheets and packaging materials for medicinal products sold in Italy and abroad from the 1970s onwards; essays on Bracco products from specialist journals from the 1950s onwards; institutional brochures from the 1960s onwards; and advertising posters from the 1980s onwards.
The Bracco Museum has also been a source of information on the history of the company. In the history of the Bracco company, the construction of the Lambrate plant in the early 1950s has been of great strategic importance over the long term. Through the plans and relative floor plans of the offices, warehouses, laboratories and production facilities, it is possible to retrace the various stages of development of this remarkable entrepreneurial endeavour. This documentation is enriched by photographs preserved in the archive, showing the different stages of construction, the exteriors and interiors of the buildings, the plant and equipment.
Research, the company's pride and joy, especially from 1953 onwards, is documented in particular by the records and laboratory notebooks kept from the post-war period onwards, by the patents, from the 1970s onwards, and, through two interviews recorded on audiocassettes, with those who were among the main architects of Bracco's success in the field of research. Also significant is the documentation that gives an account of the internationalisation of the company and its relations with Group companies starting in particular from the 1970s (contracts, minutes of meetings, correspondence). There are also documents relating to Bracco scientific and cultural initiatives and/or in collaboration with other organisations from the 1970s onwards (Historical Archive). Also of note are films, videotapes, floppy disks, CD-ROMs.

The archive also contains documents relating to Bracco's scientific and cultural initiatives and/or collaboration with other organisations from the 1970s onwards. The archive also contains and catalogues 600 scientific and cultural monographs and periodicals published in collaboration with the Society.