Museum Stradivarius Stradivari Museum) traces its history back to 1893, the year when Cremona received a gift from Giovanni Battista Cerani collection of patterns, designs and different tools that belonged to a local violin masters, including the famous Antonio Stradivari. In 1895, the year that another donation made Pietro Grulla – he gave four wooden clip, which were also made by Stradivari. But the most significant part of the Museum's collection are artifacts from the collection of Ignazio Alessandro Cozio, Earl of Salabue. He was born in 1755, the year and became the first who began to collect the heritage of the great violin makers. Purchasing what was left from the workshop of Stradivari, Alessandro Cozio was able to satisfy his interest, which he always had for the violin, and soon became a major specialist in this field. The collection, consisting of wood pieces, paper sketches and various items that were used in the manufacture of violins, violas, cellos and other musical instruments, in 1920, the year was sold last representative of the family of Kozio, awning Paola dalla Valle del Pomar, violin master from Bologna Giuseppe Fiorini for 100 thousand liras. Later this priceless collection carefully studied Simone Fernando Sacconi, who gathered information about each of the items in the collection. Fiorini was defeated in his attempt to create in Italy a school production of violins on the basis of his collection, and eventually, in 1930, the year that gave all the congregation Cremona. In the same year at the Palazzo Affaitati was inaugurated the exhibition with a collection of Salabue. Then the Museum moved to the Palazzo del Arte, but in 2001, the year he returned to the elegant Palazzo Affaitati 18th century.

Today the Museum Stradivari is divided into three sections. The first describes the production of violins and violas in accordance with the traditions of classical kremenski school, while the second presents the instruments Italian violin makers of the second half of the 19th – first half of the 20th century, while the third exhibited the same collection of Salabue-Fiorini 710 with artifacts from the workshop of Stradivari.