The Museum of Archaeological Sciences and Art of Padua is located in the suggestive spaces on the top floor of Palazzo Liviano specially created by Gio Ponti in the 1930s, under the rectorate of Carlo Anti. The recent architectural restoration and the new exhibition of the collections have restored the original functionality to the spaces of one of the best examples of Italian museography of the 1930s as well as one of the rare university museums set up in that period. Today the Museum houses three main sections in its 14 rooms: collecting (Mantova Benavides room), archaeological collections (in the 12 central rooms) and the plaster casts gallery in the hall of the same name. Since 2008, the new lithological section "Lazzarini" has also been exhibited in this same room, alongside which in recent years an educational section (models and samples) has been added. As in an ideal time machine, the museum's collections tell of characters and events that are part of the long history of ancient studies and reflect the changes, cultural and methodical, that characterized the birth and structuring of the archaeological discipline in Padua. in parallel to what happened in the rest of Europe. At the same time, the extreme heterogeneity of the collections, the result for the most part of donations, purchases and some rare deposits, makes possible many other itineraries for visiting the museum as regards the classes of materials preserved and the relative chronology. Each nucleus has in fact different characteristics and compositions that reflect tastes, eras and also extremely diversified acquisition opportunities, subsequently traced back to didactic and research use.