The Banks' archives contain documents related to the history of Banca Commerciale Italiana, Banco Ambrosiano Veneto, Cassa di Risparmio delle Province Lombarde, Istituto Mobiliare Italiano and Banca Intesa.

The archives of the individual banks are complemented by those of the Group, for which the minutes of the Board of Directors up to the 1960s are available.

Finally, special sections are available, in which photographs, videos and items from the bank collections are described.

The Intesa Sanpaolo Archivio Storico Library preserves the core of the historical libraries of the various credit institutions merged into the Group.

In addition to preserving existing library collections, all publications of Intesa Sanpaolo and its predecessor banks were acquired: series, monographs, periodicals and pamphlets, including works of a technical nature, history, art and culture.

The Library's collection also includes house organs, the company periodicals through which banks have communicated their identity and values over the years.

The Archivio Publifoto consists of around seven million photographs, mostly in black and white, of current events, politics, customs, society, culture, sport, landscape and architecture, taken in Italy and abroad from the 1930s to the 1990s by the photographers of the famous photojournalism agency.

Technology has made the Archivio Publifoto accessible to a wider public: the photographic collection can also be consulted online.

The digitalised photographs are also displayed at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, on the Archivio Vivo interactive wall, from which viewers can save images to their devices.