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!

On the eve of the International Forum "The Mediterranean: Realities, Challenges and Perspectives", President Michele Capasso was interviewed by TAP and other Arab agencies on Mediterranean issues.
On this occasion the International meeting of the Executive Committee of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and of the Museum of Peace - MAMT will also take place, which will address the problem of the Naples office
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The Fondazione Mediterraneo participated in the inauguration of the Expo 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci held at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The exhibition presents around 120 works including paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculptures and works of art from various of the most important museum institutions in Europe and the USA with the aim of documenting in detail the artist's particular pictorial technique, but also the approach to the knowledge of the world as a curious and free scholar.
On the sidelines of the event, President Capasso, presented the upcoming activities of the Museum of Peace -
MAMT.

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Visit to the Museum of a Mexican delegation led by the architect Luis Alberto Parra.
Welcomed by the president Michele Capasso and by the director Pia Molinari, the delegates expressed their appreciation for a unique place, a world heritage site.
On this occasion it was agreed to create the monumental work "Totem of Peace" by sculptor Mario Molinari in La Paz in compacted earth.

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The general states of culture were held in Naples with the presence of Minister Franceschini. President Capasso emphasized the importance of culture to civilize the urban and give new life to the suburbs.
On this occasion, the visit of Minister Franceschini to the Museum of Peace - MAMT and his appreciation was recalled
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