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!

The tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the sculptor Molinari's TOTEM DELLA PACE was celebrated with a ceremony held at the Museum of Peace - MAMT.
On May 20, 2011, the monumental work was inaugurated in the Maison de la Paix - Museum of Peace and the Mediterranean, in the presence of Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the historian Paolo Mieli, the ambassadors of Palestine, Israel and other countries.
In Naples, on the same day, an example of the monumental work "Tricolore" was inaugurated, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.
Today the TOTEM OF PEACE is the symbol of the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD
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On 11 May, the "Cámara de Comercio Sevilla" brought together some of the most important Sevillian institutions and companies related to tourism and gastronomy in an event where the Declaration of the "Mediterranean Diet" was presented and some companies were awarded for defend, promote and preserve the values ​​of the #MediterraneanDiet.
With this ceremony, “Cámara de Comercio Sevilla” shows its interest in promoting the gastronomy of Seville and its province as a fundamental part of the economic and commercial development of the region. The goal is to enhance the "Mediterranean Diet" as an essential element of gastronomy and its impact on economic sectors such as agriculture, tourism, health, culture, rural development and sustainability.
President Michele Capasso underlined the importance of the MD.net project - coordinated by the Campania Region - and supported the importance of the "Mediterranean Diet" as a resource for the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD and for all humanity.
On this occasion, from the Museum of Peace - MAMT, the emotional video "THE MEDITRANIAN HERITAGE OF HUMANITY", conceived and directed by Michele Capasso, was previewed
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Also this year, with no events in attendance due to Covid 19, the Foundation with its networks organized by the Museum of Peace - MAMT direct with various institutions to remember the victims of terrorism and massacres, opening the web platform to emotional paths dedicated to Museum in the "Memories" section.
President Michele Capasso recalled the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Aldo Moro, a day that since 2007 coincides precisely with the “Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Terrorism and Massacres”.
"The tragedy to which the country woke up on the morning of the discovery of the lifeless body of Aldo Moro, inside a red Renault 4 parked in Via Caetani in Rome, will remain indelible in the history of Italy", says the president Capasso, speaking to young students connected via the web.
Among the commemorations proposed on the multimedia platforms of the Museum, that of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella who placed a wreath of flowers under the tombstone of Aldo Moro, in via Caetani. And then again the commemorations in the Senate with the interventions of Presidents
Casellati and Fico.

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Also this year, with no events in attendance due to Covid 19, the Foundation with its networks organized by the Museum of Peace - MAMT direct with the European Parliament and other institutions to celebrate Europe Day, on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of Schuman declaration.
On this occasion, President Capasso stressed the importance of the UITI STATES OF EUROPE as a fundamental pillar of the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD and re-proposed the APPEAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD with its symbol: the Totem of Peace
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The president of the National Park of Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni on. Tommaso Pellegrino - regional councilor of Campania - welcomed by president Michele Capasso visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT expressing his applause for the initiative of the Fondazione Mediterraneo. President Pellegrino shared the high value of the action carried out for over 30 years by the Foundation and, in particular, the constitution of the "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD", born in 1990 from an intuition of Gustavo Rol.

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