The academy's museum, the Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti, is housed in the main building of the academy and is open to the public.
It began as a collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures acquired for students to observe and study before beginning work on live models.
In 1891 Filippo Palizzi, who was the president of the academy at the time, proposed housing the collection in a permanent public gallery and building it up to include contemporary art.
Palizzi himself donated a large number of his own works and those by his brothers, Giuseppe, Nicolas, and Francesco, as well as works by French artists which they had collected.
The gallery was not completed until 1916.
However, it was forced to close shortly thereafter due to problems of humidity and inadequate skylights.
It re-opened in 1929, but was again closed during World War II when the collections were dispersed and put in storage.
It did not re-open until 1959.

Further structural problems with the gallery forced its closure in the 1970s for urgent repair work.
The collections were again dispersed for safe-keeping, and some of the works stored in the academy were lost in a serious theft in 1984.
The gallery finally re-opened in 2005.
The works on display range from the 17th to the mid-20th century.
The oldest painting is by Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652), but the museum is particularly noted for its collection of 19th-century works including those from the School of Posillipo, many of whose artists had been students and professors at the academy.
In 2007, the museum's Gipsoteca, a collection of plaster casts of important sculptures and reliefs, was opened to the public.
It contains over 70 pieces displayed thematically in four rooms.
The academy's museum, the Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti, is housed in the main building of the academy and is open to the public. It began as a collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures acquired for students to observe and study before beginning work on live models. In 1891 Filippo Palizzi, who was the president of the academy at the time, proposed housing the collection in a permanent public gallery and building it up to include contemporary art. Palizzi himself donated a large number of his own works and those by his brothers, Giuseppe, Nicolas, and Francesco, as well as works by French artists which they had collected. The gallery was not completed until 1916. However, it was forced to close shortly thereafter due to problems of humidity and inadequate skylights. It re-opened in 1929, but was again closed during World War II when the collections were dispersed and put in storage. It did not re-open until 1959.
Further structural problems with the gallery forced its closure in the 1970s for urgent repair work. The collections were again dispersed for safe-keeping, and some of the works stored in the academy were lost in a serious theft in 1984. The gallery finally re-opened in 2005. The works on display range from the 17th to the mid-20th century. The oldest painting is by Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652), but the museum is particularly noted for its collection of 19th-century works including those from the School of Posillipo, many of whose artists had been students and professors at the academy. In 2007, the museum's Gipsoteca, a collection of plaster casts of important sculptures and reliefs, was opened to the public. It contains over 70 pieces displayed thematically in four rooms.
Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli