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!

At the conclusion of the press conference of presentation of the "Euro-Mediterranean Concert for the Dialogue between Cultures: Sounds of Peace", Eugenio Bennato has appeared in the music room of the MAMT with the song "Who Let the Mediterranean".

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It took place on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at the Foreign Press Association in Italy, based in Rome in Via Humility n. 83 / C, the press conference of presentation of the fourth edition of the "Naples Pizza Village". Promoted by Pizzaiuoli Neapolitans, under the patronage of the Ministry of Agriculture, will take place on the waterfront of Naples Via Caracciolo from Tuesday 2 to Sunday, September 7, 2014.
For six days the seafront of Naples will become the largest outdoor pizzeria in the world, thanks to its more than 30 thousand square meters of construction, 45 wood-burning ovens and well 4400 seats in total.
Among the major events of Napoli Pizza Village, 2014, over the music, culture and art, also the final figure of the "World Championship of Pizzaiolo".
The event, strongly supported by the city, is not just a promotion event of a typical product of Italian and Neapolitan cuisine in the world, but also a tourist attraction to boost tourism flows over the city of Naples.
Agreements to encourage the incoming with tour operators and carriers with major Italian, as Trenitalia, indicate clearly the mission of the project.
The conference was presented the Museum MAMT - made ​​by the Fondazione Mediterraneo - with its "Pizza of the Museum", created by an agreement between the Foundation and the Association Pizzaiuoli Neapolitans.
Speakers included, among others:

  • The Councillor for Tourism of the Region of Campania Pasquale Sommese
  • Sales Manager Southern Italy Trenitalia, Cinzio Bitetto
  • President Association Pizzaiuoli Neapolitans, Sergio Miccù
  • the brand manager of Napoli Pizza Village, Claudio Sebillo
  • President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso with Pia Molinari, head of art and creativity.

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