The Museo del Violino has named a new curator: Riccardo Angeloni, the first graduate of the course, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, from the University of Pavia's, Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage. Before that, he completed a degree in the International School of Violin Making.
Located in Cremona, the Museum was established in 1893, and celebrates the city's centuries-old tradition of violin making, declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2012. Cremona was home to the violin-making families, Amati, Guarneri, and Stradivari, whose instruments are displayed in the Museum.
Angeloni has worked with several other institutions, including the Arvedi Laboratory of Non-Invasive Diagnostics, the Swabian Museum of Trieste, the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome and the Civic Museum of Modena.
These experiences contributed to Angeloni's appointment, with the committee crediting him for "continuing the path promoted in the last decade by the Museum, aimed at consolidating its role as a national and international reference for studies on the conservation and functionality of bowed instruments."
"The appointment of our first graduate as curator of the Museo del Violino is news that fills us with joy and satisfaction," said Massimiliano Guido, president of the Degree Course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage. "It is one of many signs that have been reaching us in recent months, confirming the quality of the professional training course on musical and scientific instruments, unique in Italy, which our University opened in 2016. All our graduates are working as restorers both for private, both for museums on the national territory. The course is finally entering its full maturity."
Angeloni succeeds Fausto Cacciatore, who served as the Museum's curator from 2013, and who will work with Angeloni in the early stages of his new appointment.
