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!

Secretary-General Michele Capasso participated in the presentation of the book written by the Bishop of Assisi Domenico Sorrentino entitled "CARLO ACUTIS. SULLE ORME DI FRANCESCO E CHIARA D'ASSISI - Originali e non fotocopie" (Editions Francescane Italian), held in Naples and Scampia.
During his speech, Michele Capasso recalled the similar Vesuvian origins with Bishop Domenico (Boscotrecase and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio), the figure of his father Raffaele (Mayor of Reconstruction) and the appointment of Carlo Acutis as Ambassador to the United States of the World.
Concluding his speech, Capasso emphasised the importance of the forthcoming opening of the emotional itinerary dedicated to Carlo Acutis in the MAMT Museum of Peace with a chapel dedicated to him, which will join those with the relics of Don Bosco, Mother Mazzarello, John Paul II, Padre Pio and Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
At the end there was an exchange of books with dedications: "Raffaele, the Mayor" to Don Domenico and "Carlo Acutis" to Michele.

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Students and teachers from the Caselli Institute in Capodimonte visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT and the section dedicated to Raffaele Capasso.
On this occasion, welcomed by SG Michele Capasso, a few copies of the book "Raffaele, il Sindaco" (Edition San Paolo) were donated and the figure of Raffaele Capasso, mayor of the reconstruction of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, was remembered on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

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Received by the Secretary-General, Professor Michele Capasso, the Honourable Giuseppe Lumia, Professor Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Professor Giuseppe D'Antonio and other members of the association, the Prefect visited the main itineraries, lingering over those dedicated to Don Bosco, Don Diana, Raffaele Capasso and others.
At the end of the visit, he expressed his admiration for the efforts made since 1987 for the Earth and for Peace and for the high level of representativeness of the museum site.

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Sixty years ago, on 24 January 1965, Winston Churchill died. He was twice British prime minister, between 1940 and 1945 and between 1951 and 1955.
The "United States of the World" - with the Museum of Peace, where the "Churchill Room", in which the statesman stayed for a long time, is located - remembered him with a series of events and a meeting with students during which films of the British statesman's main speeches were shown.
He is still remembered today as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, who was able to make an entire people resist the bombing and destruction brought to British soil by the planes of Nazi Germany.
"I can promise you nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat", were his words at his inauguration in 1940.

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