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!
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03 July 2017
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
The Foundation with the Museum of Peace - MAMT hosted the training course of the Order of Journalists of Campania with the theme "THE FUTURE FOR NEW FEEDERS, EVOLUTION OF THE DAYNALISTIC PROFESSION, THE IMPACT OF SHARED ECONOMY".
Among the speakers were Massimo Lo Cicero - University Professor, Massimiliano Musto - Director of Kompetere Journal, Massimo Deandrels - General Manager of SRM, Domenico Falco - Vice President O. D. G Campania and Giovanni A. Forte - Sociologist.
In his closing speech, President Michele Capasso announced the next programme "KIMYYA", on the role of women in the media for peace and dialogue, and the awarding of the "Mediterranean Information Award 2017" to Francesco Giorgino and Lucia Goracci.
Capasso stressed the need to give back to information and media a "positive" dimension in order to avoid that the enormous amount of tragic news can definitively affect young people, destroying hope for their future.
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03 July 2017
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Journalist Francesco Giorgino, visiting the Museum of Peace - MAMT, paid homage to Mario Molinari's "Totem for Peace" and to the work of the great Turinese sculptor.
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20 June 2017
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
On this occasion, the Fondazione Mediterraneo organized the delivery of clothing for many refugees and the Museum of Peace - MAMT dedicated the whole day to refugees, their rights and their "resource" with videos, performances and workshops involving school children.
On World Refugee Day UNHCR celebrates the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. Now is the time to show them solidarity in a concrete way through simple gestures:
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17 June 2017
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
In order to raise awareness among governments, organizations and individuals about the collective responsibility for sustainable use of water and to prevent desertification and drought, the Museum of Peace - MAMT has dedicated a thematic day to the theme: videos, meetings and an awareness campaign directed especially at young people.
In 1995, the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/49/115 chose 17 June to celebrate World Day against Desertification and Drought. On the same day, in 1994, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was adopted in Paris, ratified by 200 countries. The objective of the Convention is to mitigate the effects of drought through international cooperation activities and partnership agreements in the countries most affected, particularly in Africa. The strategies implemented focus on improving soil productivity and sustainable management of land and water resources. According to a UNCCD study, we lose 24Â billion tonnes of fertile land every year and 15Â billion trees every hour, and 1.5Â billion people are being fed by land that is at risk of desertification. The practices considered unsustainable are monocultures, the use of chemicals and overgrazing.
The theme chosen this year for the Day is "Inclusive cooperation for achieving Land Degradation Neutrality". Achieving neutrality in terms of soil degradation means being able to ensure that losses of fertile soil are offset by improvements in other degraded areas. The slogan for 2016 is "Protecting the Earth. Restoring soils. Involve people. In his annual message on the occasion of the Day, Secretary General Ban -Ki Moon said that desertification, drought and climate change are interlinked phenomena and for this reason, collective cooperation is needed that includes all actors involved in order to achieve neutrality in terms of soil degradation, an objective set out in point 15.3 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
On 17 June the official celebrations took place in Beijing and the MAMT Museum disconnected itself from this city.
This is particularly important because, although China is one of the countries most affected by desertification and one of the countries most responsible for global pollution, in 2013 it embarked on a new development strategy. Since then, it has promoted the construction of sustainable low-carbon infrastructure, in cooperation with neighbouring countries. This cooperation resulted in the initiative "One Belt and One Road Joint Action to Combating Desertification Initiative", details of which will be presented during the event in Beijing.
Various initiatives are planned around the world on the occasion of the Day. Also in Italy, in addition to the event at the MAMT Museum, there were several events linked to the celebration of this day. In particular, in Sassari the celebrations will be curated by the festival "Pensieri e Parole: libri e film all' Asinara", by the Conservatory "Canepa", by the Koinè Bookshop and by the Desertification Research Unit of the University of Sassari. In addition, the Research Centre of Sassari organised a two-day conference at the end of the Wadis-Mar Project, a project financed by the European Commission for the implementation of techniques for collecting and recharging groundwater in the two basins of Oued Biskra in Algeria and Oum Zessar in Tunisia.
Italy ratified its accession to the UNCCD in 1997, both as a donor country and as a country affected by desertification. The National Committee for Combating Drought and Desertification (CNLSD) was set up in 1997 by the Ministry of the Environment to coordinate the implementation of the Convention in Italy. In 1999, the Interministerial Committee for Economic Programming (CIPE) adopted the National Action Programme to Combat Drought and Desertification, which identifies the strategies to be implemented both at state and regional level to combat desertification and drought in Italy. In particular, the programme covers four areas: soil protection, sustainable management of water resources, reducing the impact of production activities and rebalancing the territory.
According to Legambiente, the regions that are heavily at risk are Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Apulia, Sardinia and Sicily. The situation is particularly serious in Sardinia, where the danger of desertification affects as much as 52% of the regional territory, of which 11% has already been affected.
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17 June 2017
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
The National Convention of "Marketing Italy" was held at the Museum of Peace - MAMT with the presentation, in particular, of the brand "Visit Naples" and the diffusion of the project in other Italian cities.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo has supported this initiative of tourism-territorial promotion, convinced of its quality and the value of "Visit Naples".
