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!

Egemen Bagis, Turkiye's former Minister for Relations with the European Union and Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2019-2025), visited the section dedicated to the sculptor Mario Molinari at the Museum of Peace  accompanied by his wife Beyhan.
Welcomed by the Secretary-General Prof. Michele Capasso, the guests retraced the human and artistic history of the great sculptor from Turin, expressing appreciation for the monumental works he created, for the "House-museum" in Turin and, in particular, for the creation of the "Totem for Peace" symbol of the United States of the World.

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Egemen Bagis, former Minister for Relations with the European Union of Turkey and Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2019-2025), visited the headquarters of the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace accompanied by his wife Beyhan N. Bagis.
Welcomed by Secretary-General Prof. Michele Capasso, the guests reviewed 40 years of commitment to peace by the United States of the World and the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
On this occasion, the historic visit of the then Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 2 September 2005 was recalled, during which the statesman was accompanied by Egemen Bagis, among others. There was great emotion in seeing the images of that day on the panels and in the ‘Istanbul Room’ inaugurated on that occasion.
During the meeting, joint actions were planned in agreement with the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), with which the United States of the World recently signed a memorandum of understanding.
A number of books were donated to the guests, including the Yearbook of the United States of the World and the volume “Francis, the Pope of the United States of the World” with a foreword by Miguel Àngel Moratinos.
At the conclusion of the visit, SG Capasso presented a gift of the "Cry for Peace" t-shirt.

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President Michele Capasso and Dr Pia Molinari attended the ceremony to switch on the lights in Plebiscito square.
After greetings to the authorities, the main speeches. Mayor Gaetano Manfredi and Undersecretary Wanda Ferro: “Important step for the city”. The prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, inaugurating the square's new lighting, said: 'This is an important step for the redevelopment of this square, which is a symbol in the world. It was another bet in a choral challenge that saw the City of Naples, the Ministry of the Interior, the Fund for Religious Buildings, the Prefecture of Naples, the State Property Office, and the Superintendent of Public Works working together".

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President Michele Capasso accompanied delegations from various countries on a visit to the “Pino Daniele Spiritual” exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Naples. Among those present were the Ambassador of Bosnia to Italy Amira Arifović Harms, the deputy mayor of Srebrenica and president of the committee for the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the genocide Hamdija Fejzić accompanied by Sadeta Suljić, the UN Secretary-General and High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations Miguel Àngel Moratinos accompanied by his wife Dominique, the prefect of Naples Michele di Bari, prof. Lhassan Hbid with his wife Lamia, the deputy mayor of Gernika Jon Lejarraga, diplomats and men of culture from various countries, the Ambassadors of the United States of the World Giuseppe Lumia, Giuseppe D’Antonio, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Gilles Altan.

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The Paoline Sisters of Naples, led by Sister Dina Scognamiglio, collaborate with the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace on the emotional path dedicated to Pope Francis.
In the dedicated spaces on the ground floor there are books dedicated to Pope Francis to complete the emotional path.

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