The Municipal Building houses one of the main Strings Collection in the world.These instruments outline the history of the greatest violin making school ever known;born and developed in Cremona from the first half of the Sixteenth Century to the first half of the Eighteenth Century.- Violin:"Carlo IX di Francia";Andrea Amati;1566
- Viola:"La Stauffer";Antonio and Gerolamo Amati;1615
- Violin:"L'Hammerle";Nicolò Amati;1658
- Violin:"Il Clisbee";Antonio Stradivari;1669
- Violin:Francesco Ruggeri;1675
- Violin:"Il Quarestani";Giuseppe Guarneri (Andrea's son);1689
- Cello:"ex Cristiani";Antonio Stradivari;1700
- Violin:"Il Cremonese 1715";Antonio Stradivari;1715
- Violin:"Il Vesuvius";Antonio Stradivari;1727
- Violin:"Lo Stauffer";Giuseppe Guarneri (called del Gesù);1734
- Violin:"Lo Stauffer";Enrico Ceruti;1868
- Violin:Simone Fernando Sacconi;1941