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

The Canova Museum is administered by the Canova Foundation , the cultural organization that enhances the great Canova heritage of Possagno.

Founded in the mid-nineteenth century by Giovanni Battista Sartori, Antonio Canova's brother, the Canova Foundation also preserves and promotes knowledge of the house where he was born, where Canova was born way back in 1757 and which still retains the original furnishings, and is today the headquarters of the Art Gallery: "the most suitable location and most full of symbolic values".

The Antonio Canova Gypsotheca and Museum houses the complete collection of the original models, created by Canova himself in his Roman atelier, to allow his workshop to create marble copies.

The Canova Museum 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 brilliant pavilion designed by Carlo Scarpa (1957).

The Gypsotheca allows not only to admire a series of absolute masterpieces but also to understand the rich and complex itinerary of Canova's invention, of his acquaintances, of the Italian and European clients who appreciated, searched for and purchased his numerous works.