Accademia del Bello, Art museum in Poggio, Italy

The Accademia del Bello is an art museum in Poggio connected with the Open Air Museum Italo Bolano, presenting diverse collections of contemporary artworks and sculptures throughout its spaces. The grounds feature multiple exhibition areas where pieces are displayed in both indoor and outdoor settings.

The Accademia del Bello opened on 7 August 2017 in Poggio, a hamlet of Marciana on Elba, as a museum of figurative arts and scenography. Its exhibition room holds a copy of Les cinq codes donated by Napoleon Bonaparte to the community of Poggio in 1814, annotated in his hand; the volume was shown in Tokyo in 1999. The archive gathers funds such as Fondo Poggio (1796-1958) and Fondo Giuseppe Cacciò, plus relics of a 1944 Monte Capanne air disaster.

The Accademia's Sala delle Conferenze, with early 19th-century wall paintings, hosts talks on Elba's history, figurative arts, archaeology and ecosystem. In May 2019 the poet Manrico Murzi spoke there at the meeting Le parole del mare e quelle dell'uomo; on 3 August 2024 the journalist Maria Cuffaro presented Maria Cuffaro si racconta.

The museum is in Poggio, a hamlet of Marciana on Elba, reachable by ferry from Piombino to Portoferraio and then by road up to the village. The small garden, planted with Strelitzia nicolai, Strelitzia reginae, Beschorneria yuccoides, Phormium tenax variegatum and Farfugium japonicum giganteum, is used for open-air concerts. The Sala delle Conferenze, with early 19th-century wall paintings, hosts talks on Elba's history, figurative arts, archaeology and ecosystem.

In the Sala delle Esposizioni is kept a copy of Les cinq codes, donated by Napoleon Bonaparte to the community of Poggio in 1814, probably during his visit on 27 August; several pages carry his own annotations. The volume was shown in Tokyo in 1999 at the exhibition Napoleon Bonaparte. The Man.