page_title: Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona / History
caption_attribution_description: Cremona, museo civico, ingresso
context_page_description: Museo Civico Ala Ponzone is a public museum and art gallery located in the 16th-century Palazzo Affaitati in Cremona, Italy.
context_section_description: The core of the original collection was donated in 1842 by Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone and supplemented from works from suppressed ecclesiastical institutions. Among the works in the collection are a St Francis of Assisi in Meditation by Caravaggio and L'ortolano by  Giuseppe Arcimboldi.
  In the Sala del Platina, a section in the museum, the large Sacristy armoire or cabinet, called the Armadio del Platina, originally from the Cremona Cathedral. The Renaissance-style wood cabinet has a series of intarsia tableuxs,  completed during 1477-1480 by the Giovanni Maria da Piadena, called il Platina, and restored for this museum in 2007.
  The museum also houses historic musical instruments, with the nucleus being a collection donated by Carlo Alberto Carutti.
caption: Museo Civico Ala Ponzone
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