Pinacoteca civica di Ascoli Piceno, Art museum in Piazza Arringo, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

The Pinacoteca Civica occupies the north wing and part of the west wing of the first and second floors of the Palazzo dell'Arengo on Piazza Arringo. Its 15 exhibition rooms hold panel and canvas paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, sculptures, detached frescoes, coins, ceramics, musical instruments and miniatures, along with Baroque to Empire furniture, consoles and chandeliers.

The civic collection began in the last quarter of the 18th century through the Ascolan prelate Alessandro Maria Odoardi, who gathered paintings, late-Gothic goldwork and Egyptian papyri in the manner of a Wunderkammer. The museum opened on 4 August 1861 through the initiative of the Ascolan artists Giorgio Paci and Giulio Gabrielli, who added religious works taken from churches and religious houses after the Valerio decree. The Ceci collection followed in 1924.

The Sala del Piviale displays the Piviale di Niccolò IV and two trittici by Carlo Crivelli from the church of San Vito in Valle Castellana. In the Sala di Tiziano, Pietro Alemanno's Annunciazione, commissioned in 1484, shows the plan of quattrocento Ascoli at the bottom centre.

The museum occupies the north wing in full and part of the west wing on the first and second floors of the Palazzo dell'Arengo, so the visit involves stairs between levels. The entrance room is the Sala Ventidio Basso; from there the route continues through the Sala della Vittoria, once the city's first wooden theatre, to the Sala del Piviale and the Sala di Tiziano.

In the Sala del Piviale, named after it, is the Piviale di Niccolò IV, the vestment linked to Pope Nicholas IV, a former bishop of Ascoli. The same room holds Carlo Crivelli's two Valle Castellana triptychs, tempera panels from the church of San Vito in Valle Castellana, in the province of Teramo.