The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere is an Italian academy founded by Napoleon in 1797.
The first location of the Istituto was Bologna and the academy was bound to include no more than 60 members.
The first 31 were appointed by Napoleon in 1802 and the first president was Alessandro Volta, who started serving in 1803.
Additional sections were then added in Bologna, Verona, Padua and Venice.
In 1959 Istituto Lombardo moved to a new location, Palazzo Landriani, where are now located the library and the archive, many storages and the offices, but maintained its historical Sala Adunanze (the conference room) and some storages in Palazzo Brera.