The Museo Antonio Canova, with its Gypsotheca, is located in the town of Possagno (Treviso) and represents one of the first great Italian artistic collections. 

The Museo Canova is managed by the Fondazione Canova, the cultural organization that enhances the great Canova heritage of Possagno.  

Established in the mid-nineteenth century by Giovanni Battista Sartori, Antonio Canova's brother, the Fondazione Canova also preserves and promotes the knowledge of the birth home, where Canova was born in 1757 and which still retains the original furnishings, and is now home to the Pinacoteca: "the most suitable and symbolically rich location".

The Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova houses the complete collection of original models, created by Canova himself in his Roman studio, to allow his workshop to produce marble copies. 

The Museo Canova with its extraordinary collection of models, is divided between the spaces of the evocative basilica built by the Venetian architect Francesco Lazzari (1836) and those of the ingenious pavilion designed by Carlo Scarpa (1957). 

The Gypsotheca not only allows you to admire a series of absolute masterpieces but also to understand the rich and complex journey of Canova's invention, his relationships, the Italian and European patrons who appreciated, sought, and acquired his numerous works.