The Marcopolo Memory Documentation Center emerged from the 50 Years of the Marcopolo Project, in 1999, whose objective was the production of a book that told the story of the 50 years of the company. From the first moment the greatest preoccupation was to save and recollect the documents that could tell the story of the company, thus the documentation was divided into large domains.

After the 50 year commemorations, the project was finalized. It was only in 2004, when the company completed 55 years, that the Historical Rescue Project was implanted, now with the objective not only to tell the story of the company but also to organize all of its inventory documentation, making information available in a rapid way through the data and image bank. In this period the Marcopolo Memorial is born.

Due to the great quantity of documentation produced by the company from 1999 to 2004, the Memorial activities focus on the organization of the collection of this period.

In 2007, the Marcopolo Memorial, took a new direction. Nowadays, it is composed of a team of professionals specializing in the technical treatment of collections and research this way defining its area of action as:

In the light of this new posture and with new ways of thinking and organization, the Marcopolo Memorial became the Marcopolo Memory Documentation Center.