City Museum "Ala Ponzone" located in Palazzo Affaitati in Cremona, in particular, here is the city art gallery. The Palace was built in the early 16th century, and today its elegant halls houses a collection of paintings of the family Ponzone that in 1842, the year gave the city the Marquis Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone. In subsequent years, the collection was enriched by works of art from closed churches of Cremona. Today the Museum contains over two thousand exhibits – paintings and sculptures, only part of which is exposed to the public.

The first room of the gallery is devoted to the middle Ages and the 15th century – here you can see sculptures, fragments of old frescoes and a collection of works of the family of Bembo. The art of the 16th century is represented by works of local artists in the art Nouveau style, Boccaccino, Pedro Fernandez, Removing Galeazzo Campi, as well as paintings in the Renaissance style, which anticipated the work of the great Caravaggio. In the hall of San Domenico you can see a number of works of art from the destroyed Church of the same name, which reflect Milan's contribution to the local culture of the 17th century (the work of Cerano, Nuvolone, Procaccini). And in other exhibition halls still lifes, including the famous "gardener" Giuseppe Arcimboldi, portraits of family members Ponzone, pictures of Genovesi the 17th century, the first creation in the styles of Neoclassicism (Diotte) and romanticism (Picco). Finally, the last two rooms are dedicated to the applied arts are exhibited here porcelain, pottery, majolica, enamels and ivory.

On the second floor of the Palazzo Affaitati visitors can find the section kremenski iconography, a collection of paintings by Lombard and Kremensky artists of the 19th (Gorra, Colombi Board) and 20th centuries (Vittori, Rizzi). The third floor is the Kingdom of sketches and prints. Graphic collection of the Museum consists of over two thousand six thousand items! Some of them date back to the 15th-16th centuries.