Since 2025, the Bracco Foundation has been entrusted with CID – Centro Informazione Documentazione (Information and Documentation Center) and its collections, curating its cultural programme in line with the Foundation’s vision and statutory principles. This commitment forms part of a broader effort to promote business culture and historical industrial heritage as living resources for the present and the future.
Originally created in the early 1960s to chronicle Torviscosa’s industrial identity, CID is now being reimagined as a dynamic contemporary cultural project. More than a place of memory, it is intended as a true “factory of culture” for the local area, bringing history, innovation and cultural production together under one roof and creating new opportunities for learning and engagement.
CID is now undergoing a major regeneration programme led by the Bracco Foundation. When it reopens, it will offer renewed, more accessible spaces, with new exhibition routes and improved visitor engagement. The project has been made possible by SPIN Bracco, which owns the building and the centre’s historical, archival and library collections.
The new CID will be a museum about corporate and business culture, research and contemporary artistic production, with a programme of exhibitions, events, educational activities and talks. It will open up the centre’s collections and Torviscosa’s history to the public and the local community using contemporary approaches to display and interpretation.
The project draws strength from its roots in Torviscosa, home to Bracco’s main production site in Italy—a modern Industry 4.0 facility in an area with a long-standing vocation for chemistry and manufacturing. Today, SPIN Bracco is both an international benchmark for sustainable production and a powerful example of how Italy’s industrial heritage can be preserved, renewed and brought back into use.
Through CID, the Bracco Foundation continues to promote culture as a force for sustainable development, helping to give new life to an important site in Italy’s industrial history as a place for culture, exchange and engagement.
