Violin museum marks Stradivari's birthplace

The Violin Museum in Cremona, Italy.

Steel magnate funds creation of museum in Cremona, Italy, boasting workshop, auditorium and collection of priceless instruments.

For about 250 years, from the mid-16th century to the late 1700s, a little town on the banks of the river Po was a music-making capital. It was the birthplace not only of Antonio Stradivari, the still unsurpassed master luthier, but also, arguably, of the modern violin itself and of a series of craftsmen who made some of the most beautiful-sounding string instruments known to man.