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!

Students and teachers of the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT in compliance with Covid 19 regulations.
Accompanied by the president Michele Capasso and the museum guides, they expressed amazement and appreciation for a space they defined as a “Place of goodness”. At the end of the visit they performed playing pieces by Pino Daniele on the piano.

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Great enthusiasm among the boys of the GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2021 visiting the section of the Museum of Peace - MAMT dedicated to Mario Molinari, the sculptor of color.
Of great interest are the "Egyptian" copper work, the "Totem of Peace" and the Molinari House Museum in Turin.
With the motto "we want to live in color" the boys left the museum hoping to visit the Turin House Museum to continue the emotional journey dedicated to the great sculptor.

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A multi-year memorandum of understanding was signed between the Molinari family and the Fondazione Mediterraneo with which the "MOLINARI HOUSE MUSEUM" in Turin becomes the emotional heritage of the Museum of Peace - MAMT, adding to the network of emotional paths: from PINO DANIELE to the VOICES OF MIGRANTS, from A SEA THREE FAITHS to THE MEDITERRANEAN OF EMOTIONS, from MEMORIES to LEGALITY AND JUSTICE.
The Board of Directors and the International Committee have retraced the main stages of a process that starts from 1997 with the "Totem of Peace" spread in various countries until today with the creation of the United States of the World whose symbol is the "Totem of Peace" by Molinari. 

The Foundation will ensure collaboration with the "MOLINARI HOUSE MUSEUM" also for the maintenance of the decor of the building in which it is located.
The building was built by the architect Fenoglio where the Municipality of Turin in 2012 dedicated a plaque to Mario Molinari and, recently, a square to be built in the San Salvario district.

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