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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15 October 2015
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
President Michele Capasso had meetings with craftsmen from the Fes Medina: one of them donated an ancient rare carpet to the Museum.
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14 October 2015
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
President Michele Capasso had meetings with the director of the FES Crafts Center for the realization of a section devoted to the works of young artisans in order to promote the ancient trades.
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12 October 2015
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
President Michele Capasso has signed an agreement with Said and Zhara Margoul, antiques and art and crafts enthusiasts, for the donation of objects and finds for the "Morocco delle emozioni" section of the Museum of Peace - MAMT in Naples.
Objects will arrive in Naples by the end of 2015.
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23 September 2015
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Michle Capasso and Pia Molinari have intervened in the presentation of the volume "I do not hang on, Italy's information that annoys", by Nico Pirozzi.
In the sign of Giancarlo Siani, thirty years of the murder of September 23, 1985, eight journalists told the Pan, the Palace of the Arts in the Thousands of Thousands, their stories of threatened chroniclers, life under escort, daily engagement without heroism, but only to continue reporting the facts.
Their testimonies are collected precisely in this volume edited by Cento Autori.
Among them is the story of Federica Angeli, a reporter for "Repubblica", who wrote about the mafia of the Spada, the cousins of the Casamonica, clinging to the coast of Ostia. "I was intimidated, they knew my children, my habits," he told the Angels. "They had set up a true architecture of terror to distract me from what I wanted to tell, until I was sequestrated in July 2013. From that day I live under protection, and who asks me why I did it, because the answer is always in my children. In them I see those from all over Italy, of an entire community who must understand that they can win the pen, not the gun. "
He was replaced by the testimony of the journalist and blogger Arnaldo Capezzuto who suffered threats to investigate Forcella's clan, the aggressions received by Paolo Borrometi, director of "La Spia" in Ragusa, also a life under escort after the complaint of mafia infiltrations in the municipality of Scicli.
They discussed with them former Procurator of the Republic of Naples Giandomenico Lepore, also author of the preface to the volume, the Assessor Nino Daniele, Ottavio Lucarelli, President of the Order of Campania Journalists, Secretary of the Unitarian Campaign Journalists Campania Armando Borriello, and Alberto Spampinato, director of the Observatory on "Oxygen" Journalistic Information.
Prior to the presentation of the book, Paolo Borrometi met with Capasso and Molinari at the headquarters of the Museum of Peace - MAMT in Naples where he is curator of the section "The memory of emotions".
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21 September 2015
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
On the occasion of the twenty-five years of death, the MAMT - Museum of Peace devotes a section to Raffaele Capasso, Mayor of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio for 35 years and an example of a politician dedicated to the "Good Common".
Appreciation for the work of Mayor Capasso by the first visitors: from Prince Turki to Faisal al Saud to President Andrè Azoulay, from Tom Fox to Ambassadors of the Mediterranean Countries.
For this occasion, a special edition of the volume "THE TRAVEL OF SIGNOR NIENTE" was dedicated to Raffaele Capasso.
