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!

MAMT hosts the hourglass ideated by Filippo Cannata and which symbolizes the  “Needed Time”. During the opening ceremony, at the presence of Tunisian and Moroccan Ambassadors in Italy and Parliamentar Ministry Enrico Granara had been appointed to Filippo Cannata the Award “Medal of Honour” for Architecture” 2013.

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The inauguration of “Prayer Room” at MAMT was evocative and suggestive: the place where different confessions prayed together.
In  this occasions exponents of different confessions–leaded by Imam Hamid Saydawi and by Don Antonio from Santa Maria del Parto Church of Naples- joined in prayer giving birth to an unique occasion of peace, dialogue and cooperation.
Joined to the event the major of Naples Luigi de Magistris, Campania Region culture assessor  Caterina Miraglia, MAE Ambassadors Enrico Granara, Moroccan one Hassan Abouyoub, Tunisian one Naceur Mestiri, exponents of three  monoteistic religions, Procida and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio’s majors Capezzuto e Capasso and the head of Military School “NunziatellaNapolitano.

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Inaugurated at MAMT the Nativity Scene donated by Giuseppe and Marco Ferrigno: an unique artwork which contains the high level knowledge of craftsmanship of the big manger scene’s artisans. Joined to the ceremony the major of Naples de Magistris, culture assessor of Campania Region  Caterina Miraglia, MAE Ambassadors  Granara, Moroccan one Abouyoub, Tunisian Mestiri and exponents of three  monotheistic religions.

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The  Totem of Peace by Mario Molinari is the symbol of MAMTMediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions. A large number of people joined to the opening ceremony and enjoyed Molinari’s majestic sculpture. Among the others: Naples Major De Magistris, Campania Region Culture Assessor Caterina Miraglia, MAE Ambassador Granara, Moroccan one Abouyoub, Tunisian one Mestiri, exponents of three  monoteistic religions, Procida and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio’s major and the head of Military School “Nunziatella”.

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