Bassano del Grappa ceramic museum, Ceramic museum in Palazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa, Italy

The Bassano del Grappa ceramic museum is housed in Palazzo Sturm and displays an extensive collection of pottery objects spanning several centuries with focus on regional styles from the Veneto area. The pieces document different manufacturing techniques and show how forms and decoration evolved over time.

The museum opened in 1992 in Palazzo Sturm, an eighteenth-century residence beside the Brenta. In 2010 it was enlarged through the bequest of ceramic pieces left by the Vicentine marquis Giuseppe Roi (1924-2009), after whom it is named. The collection grew around Bassano's own manufactories, above all the Antonibon maiolica of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Antonibon family's maiolica, made in Bassano in the 18th and 19th centuries, dominates the collection. Experts call its repeating decorative motif "tacchiolo"; old factory inventories record it as "blanser". A tile section shows ceramics of everyday 18th-century use, with Dutch tiles displayed for comparison.

The museum occupies Palazzo Sturm, an eighteenth-century building beside the Brenta river. The roughly 1,200 pieces are arranged chronologically across more than ten rooms, with the veranda holding the eclectic terracotta, the old kitchen the popular plates and the lower floor the works by international artists. The 2010 extension, added after Giuseppe Roi's bequest, enlarged the display space.

The Antonibon family's maiolica, the core of the collection, carries a decorative motif that experts call "tacchiolo" and that old factory inventories record as "blanser". A selection of Dutch tiles is displayed beside the local ones, allowing direct comparison with other European production.