MAMT||Museo Mediterraneo dell' Arte, della Musica e delle Tradizioni (EN)

The MAMT- Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions is an institution created by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the aim “to experience” in an interactive way, the positive emotions of Our Sea through Arts, Music and Traditions. The MAMT is one of the most important initiatives of Fondazione Mediterraneo: an active space created in order to let communicate Arts, Music and Traditions of the Mediterranean contemporary society. The awareness of a past full of ancient traditions is the base for the construction of a rational and connected humanity: the vastness of the Mediterranean area collects together the responsibility, the hard work and intelligence with the ability to share spaces and cultures. Today, more than ever, the sense of future is given by the awareness of the sorrow, of the conflicts and at the same time by the ability to share joys and bond.
Art and Music are since ever the tool of communication and sharing of the humanity that, in a particular “Mediterranean” path, allows us to overtake the violence of the human being that showed itself in his greater brutality in countries as Bosnia, Palestine, Syria and other places: as testify of this there are Bosnia, in order not to forget and Suffering and Hope in the world, exhibitions of the museum.

At the same time there are symbols inviting to meeting and hope appear in lands of desolation and Hush: The Ferrigno Nativity Scene, the exhibition a Sea, three Faiths, the Peace and the Last Neapolitan Supper are part of the Museum.
Near the Totem of Peace and other works by Mario Molinari, sculptor of the color, accompanies the lonely journey of freedom, the Dreamlike World of John Crown and the desire of participation and recognition of the role of women in the Mediterranean in the exhibition “Breaking the Veils, women artists of Islamic World”.
Fado, Flamenco, Tango and Sirtaki, the Song of Naples, the Great Lyric Operas, Arabic Music and the Classics of all the times catch the attention of the audience with the acoustic perfection of the “Music hall” of the Museum.
The section dedicated to Pino Daniele has a particular meaning.
The warm of the Mediterranean human nature and the awareness of the necessity to keep track, the the wealth and the fertility find in the “Section Architecture” – with the Associated presences of Alvaro Siza, Ciamarra Picas, Vittorio Di Pace, Nicola Pagliara, Marco Introini and others - and in the Voices of the Migrants and other strong point.
The artworks of Pietro and Rino Volpe mark Mediterranean signs in which the culture and the literature merge with the creativity making a unique collection.
A collection of HD video about the most important sites of the Campania Region will accompany the tourists of cruises and the visitors in the whole building: the ground floor facing on Municipio Square will host an info-point unique in its kind. The MAMT is also an articulated system of services in the heart of the city of Naples: the library, the emeroteque, the music hall, salt conventions, the restaurants, the Euromedcafé, the residences and the bookshop receive the visitor with sympathy and enthusiasm: that enthusiasm of the Mediterranean!

Emotion and nostalgia at the Museum of Peace - MAMT, in the "PINO DANIELE ALIVE" section, ten years after the great musician's death.
"We had spoken just a few minutes before the end of that 2014 to exchange greetings - said President Michele Capasso - but above all to agree on what to do next: the section of the Museum of Peace - MAMT that he so strongly wanted, the Concert for Peace and much more. That January day in 2015, the phone call from his son Alessandro froze my heart... and then the contacts with the mayor of Naples to organise the funeral in HIS NAPLES too !".
Ten years later Pino lives again in the section of the Museum of Peace: "PINO DANIELE ALIVE".
With humility and passion we fill the "famine of him and his music" by lovingly welcoming colleagues (Emma, Elodie, Ornella Vanoni, Tullio de Piscopo, etc.), fans, the many children suffering from rare diseases who find comfort in his music, the many international guests.
All outside the commercial canons and without time limits: those who enter this space leave after hours moved and retain an indelible trace of Pino's emotions.
The highlights in Michele Capasso's docufilm "PINO IS TERRA MIA".
We love you, Dear Pino!

Fate would have it that, by pure chance, Mohamed Margoul met Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari in the Medina of Marrakech.
Mohamed is the brother of Said Margoul, Michele and Pia's fraternal friend and a member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the United States of the World.
Following in the footsteps of his brother Said - who donated precious artefacts for the Museum - Mohamed has undertaken to complete his brother's collection and has started by donating an ancient Berber wooden hammer and a Berber silver belt.
Thank you, Mohamed.

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The Cardinal of Naples, Don Mimmo Battaglia remembers Pino Daniele on the occasion of the publication of Pietro Perone's book.
"Pino Daniele was a poet of the people, a voice that knew how to sing the beauty and pain of Naples, its chiaroscuros, inhabited by a thousand colours. With his notes and words he told us about the human soul, with its feelings and dreams, but also the soul of a people, our own. "Tell me when this war will end" he sings in one of his most touching songs, and today these words resonate like a cry because we are all waiting for the end of a war: the one that lives inside us, the one of violence that still abounds in our cities, the one that wounds relationships, and that sows death in many places in the world. May Pino's music, with its universal language, be for all of us an inexhaustible source of inspiration, of breaking down walls and building bridges of peace and hope in the heart of Naples, in the heart of the world".
The book will soon be presented at the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace. 

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From 5 December 2024 until early 2025, on the initiative of DiArch - University of Naples Federico II - the Ambulacro di Palazzo Gravina will host the exhibition "Designing beyond form - projects and realisations by Massimo Pica Ciamarra and PCA".
On display is a selection of 10 models, 25 videos, photographic images, drawings and original graphics. A delegation from the United States of the World and the Fondazione Mediterraneo attended the opening conference of the exhibition.

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