The most important section comprises the Collections of the Cultural Centre.
During the post-war economic boom, the Olivetti Cultural Centres and Services organised many noteworthy cultural events, from exhibitions to lectures. Among these, visits by leading figures from the Italian and international arts world, whose talks are stored in the Audio Library, stand out. For the society and business world of the time, these were extraordinary initiatives, especially if one considers their origins in a small peripheral area like Ivrea and the Canavese.

The visits took the form of talks and lectures (followed by debates) on the theatre, literature, medicine, cinema, music, popular traditions, ancient and contemporary history, pedagogy, psychology, institutional problems, the figurative arts, social trends, science and many other subjects besides.

And the speakers? This is perhaps the element that gives this section of the Audio Library its special value, because the talks were given by the leading figures from the arts, culture and science of the 1960s and 1970s: Nicola Abbagnano, Tino Buazzelli, Carlo Cassola, Umberto Eco, Arturo Carlo Jemolo, Gianni Rodari, Denis Mack Smith, Massimo Mila, Alberto Moravia, Goffredo Parise, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bruno Munari were just some of the illustrious visitors.