Fondazione Morcelli Pinacoteca Repossi, A museum in Italy

The Fondazione Biblioteca Morcelli - Pinacoteca Repossi in Chiari combines a library and an art gallery. The library occupies eleven rooms of the foundation's palazzo at Via Varisco 9, including the Morcelli hall built in 1821-22 to Antonio Vigliani's design, with tall wooden shelves covering the walls. The gallery holds 400 paintings, 300 sculptures and over 3,000 prints, from 15th-century frescoes to 21st-century works.

Stefano Antonio Morcelli, parish priest of Chiari from 1791 to 1821, signed a donation deed in 1817 binding his library to the Congregazione della carità for the town's students. The library opened to the public that year and moved in 1822 to its present seat in Via Varisco 9, in a hall designed by Antonio Vigliani. In 1854 the lawyer Pietro Bartolomeo Repossi left his paintings, sculptures and prints to the library, founding the Pinacoteca that bears his name.

The library is named Morcelliana after Stefano Antonio Morcelli, parish priest of Chiari from 1791 to 1821, whose 1817 donation deed gave it its start; the gallery is named Repossi after Pietro Bartolomeo Repossi, who left his paintings, sculptures and prints to it in 1854. In the Morcelli hall, portraits of the first librarians Begni and Bocchi and of provost Faglia hang above the wooden shelves, facing the large portrait of Morcelli by Rottini.

The foundation is at Via Varisco 9 in Chiari, with the library and picture gallery sharing the same building. The Morcelli hall, built in 1821-22 to Antonio Vigliani's design, is on the library route; the picture gallery keeps 300 sculptures, 400 paintings and over 3,000 prints. Ask staff which rooms are open, since the 61 icons of the Giordano Scalvi collection arrived only in 2012.

Among the more than 3,000 engravings (15th–21st centuries) is Antonio Pollaiolo's rare "Battaglia degli ignudi". The gallery also keeps over 800 plaster casts of medals and cameos, plus gold, silver and bronze commemorative medals. The 61 icons of the Giordano Scalvi collection came by bequest of Liliana Giordano Scalvi in 2012; 49 are Russian, the oldest a 15th-century Cretan icon.