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!

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, visited the section dedicated to Raffaele Capasso and the spaces set up for the centenary of his birth.
On this occasion, President Michele Capasso retraced the ancient ties with Tito and Bosnia through unpublished documents and testimonies.
Particularly moving were the videos from the 1960s showing solidarity initiatives that Mayor Capasso undertook with the people of Bosnia Herzegovina.

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On 5 June 2025 at 3.30 p.m., the Museo della Pace presented “Suspended Identity”, the new photographic and video-installation project by journalist Duccio Giordano, a work in support of the Referendum for Citizenship.
A work that gives voice to those who do not yet have it, that tells of the right to be, to be there and to dream, without having to wait for a stamp, a permit or a passport to feel part of the community to which one already belongs. "Identità Sospesa' is a silent but powerful cry against the indefinite wait that many people, born or raised in Italy, experience because of anachronistic citizenship laws.
The event was also a moment of discussion and participation with speeches by institutional representatives, activists, sportsmen, artists and referendum promoters.
The exhibition was inaugurated with greetings from the Mayor of Naples and ANCI President Gaetano Manfredi, President Michele Capasso and the President of the National Citizenship Referendum Committee Riccardo Magi.
Speeches included those by:

  • Alessandra Clemente, project promoter, Naples City Councillor
  • Sarah Meraviglia, project promoter, Naples Citizenship Referendum Committee
  • Duccio Giordano, project author
  • Roberto Fico, former President of the Chamber of Deputies
  • Sandro Ruotolo, MEP, PD
  • Francesca Druetti, National Secretary of Possibile
  • Marilena Grassadonia, National Secretary of Sinistra Italiana Massimo Brancato, CGIL National Development Area Coordinator
  • Marco Sarracino, MP, PD
  • Ettore Rosato, MP and Deputy Secretary of Azione
  • Roberto De Masi, Psi National Directorate
  • Gennaro Migliore, Italia Viva National Directorate
  • Vincenzo Spadafora, former Minister of Sport, President Primavera
  • Luca Trapanese, Councillor for Welfare of the Municipality of Naples
  • Teresa Armato, Councillor for Tourism of the Municipality of Naples
  • Nicola Ricci, Secretary General CGIL Naples - Campania
  • Utibe Josephef, From the right side of history
  • Francesco Dinacci, President PD Naples
  • Laura Marmorale, Mediterranea Saving Humans
  • Vita Convertino, Regional Secretary FILT CGIL CAMPANIA
  • Fabiana Sciarelli, Prof. ssa Orientale University of Naples
  • Davide Cava, poet and performer PhD student Orientale University
  • Bassem Gassoumi, master's student L'Orientale University
  • Jarbas Faustino Canè, sportsman
  • Roxy in The Box, artist
  • Laura Valente, artistic director of the celebrations in Naples 2500
  • Michele Capasso, Secretary General of the "United States of the World" and founder of the Museum of Peace

"Suspended Identity" is not only an artistic project, but a political and cultural act: a collective invitation to recognise the new Italians, to support change, to restore dignity and hope to those who have been living in limbo for too long.

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The “Friends of Music” Association from Ginosa (Taranto) visited the Museum of Peace and the headquarters of the “United States of the World”.
Welcomed by Secretary-General Michele Capasso, they expressed great appreciation for the museum site, which they described as unique and extraordinary.

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The historical socialists of Campania and Italy remember Raffaele Capasso on the occasion of the centenary of his birth and the presentation of the book “Raffaele, the Mayor” by Michele Capasso. Among the speakers were national secretary Enzo Maraio, Giulio Di Donato, Felice Jossa, Antonio Demitry, Mariarosaria Cuocolo and Luigi Di Dato.

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