Gianluca Galimberti, Cremona mayor and president of the MdV Foundation (left) with Bracco Foundation president Diana Bracco and MdV general director Virginia Villa at the presentation of the ‘Bracco’ Storioni small violin
The Museo del Violino celebrated its sixth anniversary on 14 September 2019. The museum continues to grow in all areas, and in 2018 more than 100,000 people visited its collections, attended concerts and recitals and took part in conferences and workshops. This stems from management decisions that aim not only to promote the museum’s cultural heritage to ever-larger numbers of people, but also to build informed participation, with priority given to putting together a quality experience that helps visitors gain an awareness of the intrinsic values of the history and tradition of Cremonese violin making.
The Museo del Violino has, over time, progressively expanded its collection, adding features including the tombstone from Stradivari’s grave, analysis of Stradivari’s iconography, a tactile educational display and the unique listening experience in the immersive audio dome created by the Musical Acoustics Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, with the support of the Fondazione Arvedi Buschini.