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!

Apostolos Katsifaras, President of the Dytiki Ellada Region and President of the CPMR- Intermediterranean Commission, welcomed the proposal by President Michele Capasso and members of the Scientific Committee of the Museum of Peace - MAMT to build a branch office of the Museum in Patras and Olympia.
Katsifaras expressed beautiful words about the Museum, defining it as "A unique place, a set of emotions that nourish the different identities of the Mediterranean" and assured its maximum willingness to ensure that his region can enjoy this unique opportunity by also realizing the monumental work of the "Totem of Peace" by sculptor Mario Molinari: the proposed site is the port of Patras.

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Guy Escoplé, regional counselor of the Occitania region, accepted the proposal of the President Michele Capasso and members of the scientific committee of the Museum of Peace - MAMT to create a branch of the Museum in this region with the realization of the monumental work "Totem of Peace" "By Mario Molinari.
Escoplé viewed some of the emotional videos of the Museum and expressed appreciation for this place full of visions and positivity.

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Manuel Pleguezuelo Alonso, Director General for the European Union and Cooperation of the Region of Murcia, accepted the proposal of President Michele Capasso and members of the Scientific Committee of the Museum of Peace - MAMT to create a branch office of the Museum in this region with the construction of the monumental work "Totem of Peace" by Mario Molinari.
Daria Terràdez Salom, Director General for the European Union of Generalitat Valenciana, called for the involvement of the city of Alicante on the theme of migrants and shared values.
On this occasion, the Foundation's various stages were revisited with the opening, in 2006, of a headquarters in Murcia on interreligious dialogue in cities and the creation of the Euromed Civil Forum in Valencia in 2002.

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Francesco Giorgino - professional journalist, presenter of Tg1 of 20:00, scholar of social sciences and Communication Sociology - accompanied by President Michele Capasso visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT expressing "a thousand emotions for this temple of peace, culture and dialogue".
Dr. Giorgino has acted as an interpreter so that, also through the media, this place can be visited by the greatest number of visitors, especially young people.

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