Str3dvari will showcase reproductions of some of the museum’s finest violins, including the 1715 Stradivari ‘Cremonese’, on Saturday 5 October
Cremona’s Museo del Violino, home to some of the finest and treasured instruments in the world, will present a new exhibition dedicated to high-resolution 3D-printed reproductions of violins from the museum’s collection. The models have been acquired over the past twelve years by the Arvedi Laboratory of the University of Pavia, based in the Museo del Violino.
The exhibition, Str3dvari, will take place on Saturday 5 October at 10:30am in the Sala Fiorini at the Museo del Violino. It will feature talks from the museum’s curator Riccardo Angeloni, along with professor Ferdinando Auricchio of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture and professor Marco Malagodi of the Arvedi Laboratory of Non-Invasive Diagnostics of the University of Pavia.
Use of the models has previously only been available digitally, but thanks to increasingly precise and accesible advancements in 3D printing technology, faithful reproductions of the violins are now available for viewers to touch and observe up close.
The 3D models aim to provide an educational and multisensory experience of the instruments, allowing all interested parties to access the construction and technical information of the model and directly handling the printed replica.
The first 3D-printed violin of the project will be presented on Saturday, which will be a replica of the 1715 Stradivari ‘Cremonese’ violin. The exhibition coincides with the opening of the STRADIVARIfestival, which will feature Yuki Serino, winner of the 2024 Città di Cremona Competition, cellist Giovanni Gnocchi and the Cremona-Salzburg Ensemble. Serino will perform on the actual ‘Cremonese’ Stradivari violin in her performance.
Photos courtesy Museo del Violino
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