Acquired in 1958, the collection consists of 1,710 positive photographic prints gathered by the scholar Alessandro Scrinzi (1894-1954), a Superintendent at the Civic Museum of Padua and Director of the Civic Museums and Cultural Institutes of Brescia. The photographs in the collection document works of art by the Veneto and Lombard schools held in Brescian and Paduan collections, as well as some archaeological excavations and examples of architecture.