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!

CANONISATION OF SISTER MARIA TRONCATTI AND SAINT BARTOLO LONGO

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Vatican City | 19 October 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

From the Don Bosco and Mother Mazzarello Chapel of the Museum of Peace, live broadcast from St. Peter's Square for the canonisation ceremony of Sister Maria Troncatti and Saint Bartolo Longo.
Live from Sarajevo, President Michele Capasso and Director Pia Molinari emphasised the importance of the canonisation of Sister Maria Troncatti for the FMA and the entire Salesian Family, recalling one of her fundamental thoughts: "I give you the medicine, but it is Mary Help of Christians who heals you".
Similarly, Capasso recalled the importance of the example of St. Bartolo Longo for the secular world that must convert to the true faith.

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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK “WAR JOURNALS. BOSNIA”

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Sarajevo | 16 October 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

The world premiere of Michele Capasso's book War journals. Bosnia, presented in Italian and English, took place in Sarajevo.
The book was presented by:

  • Elma Hasimbegović
    Director of the Museum of History of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Miguel Àngel Moratinos
    UN Secretary-General and High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations.
  • Amira Arifović Harms
    Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Italy.
  • Munira Subašić
    President of the ‘Mothers Srebrenica Enclaves’ movement.
  • Kanita Fočak
    Architect and writer.

Politicians, representatives of international institutions, writers, journalists and protagonists of the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo attended the event.
Among them was the President of the House of Peoples, Kemal Ademović.
The “diary-book” is Michele Capasso's testimony and recounts his experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1964 to the present day, recounting episodes of friends, men and women, who came together in a great “chain of love” for acts of solidarity towards the victims of a fratricidal war that caused hundreds of thousands of innocent victims.
The book features Predrag Matvejević, writer and essayist, who shared with the author the most significant moments at the turn of the millennium, from 1988 to 2017. It is the story of unique human experiences at a historic moment when the Mediterranean, at the turn of the millennium, took on strategic importance for dialogue and peace: with Bosnia and Herzegovina the victim of a conflict symbolically represented by Sarajevo and Srebrenica, the town where the second genocide of the 20th century was perpetrated on 11 July 1995. 
Fratricidal war, ethnic cleansing, urbicide, memoricide, genocide: against everything that was happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in general, in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, Michele Capasso took action, investing all his personal resources and urging people not to give up, as evidenced by the stories told in this book, where everything can be rigorously verified in documents and images.

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