“Olivetti, a Story of Machines, Electronics, and Ideas”.
The life and ideas of Adriano Olivetti in parallel with the history of Olivetti,
from typewriters to the Programma 101,
the first personal computer in history.
History and heritage of IT technologies
still at the heart of MUSIL's cultural activities.
Collaboration between MUSIL and MMN – Magnetica Media Network SpA is strengthened.
Valle Camonica Hydroelectric Power Museum - July 25, 8:30 PM
MUSIL dedicates an evening to the history of Olivetti, the Ivrea-based company that deeply marked the Italian industrial and cultural twentieth century, thanks above all to the ideas of Adriano Olivetti. The narrative will retrace the origins of the company, founded by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 as the first national typewriter factory. It is a successful enterprise that his son Adriano, starting from the 1930s, would lead to even more prestigious achievements, playing a pioneering role on a global scale in a decisive sector, that of electronic and information technology.
The museum's stage will feature a Programma 101, the tabletop programmable computer created in 1965: the role of Olivetti and Ivrea in the history of 20th-century IT will be at the center of the story told by Lorenzo Airoldi, curator of the corporate retrocomputing museum set up at Magnetic Media Network SpA. This technological history will run in parallel with the biography of Adriano Olivetti and his political and cultural visions, recounted by MUSIL director, René Capovin.
With this event, MUSIL intends to contribute to moving beyond the “Olivetti myth,” bringing to the forefront the historical reality of a great company and a significant figure of the Italian twentieth century: innovations and successes, but also unfinished projects, difficulties, conflicts.
The initiative is part of the collaboration protocol that unites MUSIL and MMN – Bechtle Group, the company from Trezzo d'Adda with which MUSIL has already worked on the exhibition: “Computer Stories (https://www.computerstories.it/).
The event confirms the centrality of the history and heritage of ICT technologies in MUSIL's cultural activities.
Admission to initiatives: full price €6.00, reduced €4.00
free from the 2nd child (inclusive) onwards, free for children under 6.
For info and reservations: +39 0364 61196 / +39 342 8475113 / cedegolo@musilbrescia.it