Bassano Civic Museum, Art museum in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
The Museo Civico occupies a former Franciscan convent complex and displays more than 500 paintings and artifacts spread across multiple exhibition spaces. The collection spans artwork by local and Italian painters from different periods.
The museum was founded in 1828 and grew from a collection of paintings from religious institutions that became municipal property in the early 19th century. These works form the core of the artistic collection displayed today.
The museum holds the world's largest collection of works by Jacopo da Ponte, the 16th-century Bassano painter, together with extensive documentation of his workshop's activity. The picture gallery also displays over 500 paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, many of them from churches and convents suppressed under Napoleon and deposited near the San Francesco cloister from 1831.
The museum stands at Piazza Garibaldi 34, in the former Franciscan convent of San Francesco; the lapidary collection of tombstones, coats of arms and architectural fragments from the 13th century onward is arranged in the cloister. In June 2011 the complex gained new exhibition space, and temporary shows run regularly alongside the permanent rooms.
A special section called the Sezione Canoviana holds sketches, designs, letters, and plaster models from the renowned 19th-century sculptor Antonio Canova. This collection reveals the creative process of a major artist from that era.
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