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!

ANNIVERSARIES AT THE MUSEUM: ONE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE FRANCA VALERI'S BIRTH

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Naples | 31 July 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

The seventeenth of the anniversaries is dedicated to the centenary of Franca Valeri's birth. President Michele Capasso recalled the great actress and on the 5 floors of the Museum - in full compliance with the rules for Covid - films, unpublished works and the main theatrical "pieces" were screened.

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THEATRICAL EVENT: "NEEDED CONTAGIO"

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Naples | 30 July 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

The events at the Museum of Peace - MAMT continue in full compliance with the rules of distancing.
The program is titled "Being There" and aims to highlight the irreplaceable role of culture for recovery after the pandemic.
Period of contagion, a condition of emerging uncertainty for all seasons. An uncomfortable situation that poses the need to find a way out. The commitment of "Bottega constitututiva" goes in this direction, an initiative that was presented today at the Peace Museum in Naples born from the idea of ​​the playwright and director Egidio Carbone Lucifero and supported by the Fondazione Mediterraneo. The activities are articulated with thematic in-depth meetings, training
and experimentation in synergy, among others, with the master Enzo Moscato, exponent of the new Italian and European dramaturgy. On this occasion the medium footage was screened
"Guado" (ITA 2014), work by Egidio Carbone Lucifero for cinema with the original soundtrack by James Senese.
The meeting, organized with the representatives of the Cultural Heritage section of the provincial Acli of Naples, the Mediterranean Foundation and the Peace Museum of Naples, was attended by artists and union representatives from the world of culture and entertainment, including Massimo Taglialatela, Uilcom regional secretary Campania, sector particularly affected by the contingent state of crisis. In the presence of the author, the artists of the Bottega Costitutiva read texts by Enzo Moscato and Egidio Carbone Lucifero with musical interventions by Marzouk Mejri.

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ENZO MOSCATO VISITS THE MUSEUM OF PEACE - MAMT

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Naples | 30 July 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

The theater director Enzo Moscato visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT expressing satisfaction for a "unique and extraordinarily important place for the city of Naples".
From the Churchill Room to the emotional itineraries on cinema and Mediterranean theater, the visit took place under the guidance of President Michele Capasso who, with Moscato, addressed the theme of "non love" that invades humanity today.

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ROUTES OF FRIENDSHIP: CONCERT FOR SYRIA

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Naples | 23 July 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

Great emotion at the Museum of Peace - MAMT where on the big screens, in compliance with the COVID 19 regulations, a group of visitors enjoyed the Riccardo Muti Concert broadcast by RAIUNO.
The Concert for Syria was conducted on 5 July 2020 by Maestro Riccardo Muti at the Archaeological Park of Paestum for "The ways of friendship", as part of the Ravenna Festival. An event, between music and solidarity, that Rai Cultura proposed today 23 July at 11.15 pm on Rai1.
Together with Muti, the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra, which offer Symphony n. 3 in E flat major, op. 55 "Eroica" by Ludwig van Beethoven. To precede the performance of the Symphony, the performances of the singer Aynur Doğan and the artist Zehra Doğan, both of Kurdish origin.
The concert was dedicated to Hevrin Khalaf (1984-2019) young Syrian Kurdish woman, raped and victim of a barbarian ambush and to Khaled al-Assad (1932-2015) archaeologist, director of the Archaeological Site of Palmira who died beheaded because he wanted to defend the heritage history of that area.
President Capasso recalled on this occasion the ancient friendship with Khaled al-Assad and, before the concert, he screened an unpublished video of Palmyra: the members of the Foundation present briefly illustrated all the initiatives that the Foundation has undertaken since 2011 to help innocent victims of the civil war in Syria.
The show was supported by the Campania Region in collaboration with the Salerno Chamber of Commerce and the Ravenna Festival, promoted and organized by Scabec in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Paestum and Velia and with the Municipality of Capaccio.
The first major post-Covid-19 event, with over 800 spectators.

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