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!

Ambassador Hatem Atallah, former ambassador to Washington and executive director of the Anna Lindh Foundation, subscribes to the appeal addressed to the Italian government to ensure the Naples headquarters of Palazzo Pierce for the Museum of Peace - MAMT and other international institutions, including the " Documentation Center of the Anna Lindh Foundation ”, inaugurated by European Commissioners and by President Elisabeth Guigou.

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Habib Ben Yahia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Generation Secretary of the Arab Maghreb Union, signed the Appeal for the Museum of Peace - MAMT in Naples, so that it can be guaranteed permanence for 99 years as per international commitments.
Ben Yahia underlined the importance of the "CASA DEL MAGHREB ARABO" which is located on the ground floor of the Museum and inaugurated by him in July 2012
in the presence of Ministers and representatives of the Arab Maghreb countries.

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President Michele Capasso had a cordial meeting with the Minister of national education of Tunisia, Hatem Ben Salem, thanking him for his support for the appeal for the Museum of Peace - MAMT so that the headquarters would remain in Naples as per international agreements.
On this occasion it was agreed to launch a program entitled "The Mediterranean of schools", intended for students from various countries in order to carry out twinning and exchanges of knowledge and examples of good practice.
President Capasso dedicated a copy of the book "La Grande Méditerranée" to Minister Hatem Ben Salem.

President Michele Capasso had a cordial meeting with the Foreign Minister of Tunisia, Khemaies Jhinaoui, thanking him for the citation in the introduction to the interview of the book "La Grande Méditerranée" and for the support to the appeal for the Museum of Peace - MAMT so that the headquarters remains in Naples as per international agreements made by the Italian government in the year 2000.
On this occasion the invitation to inaugurate the Tunisia Hall of the Museum of Peace - MAMT was addressed to the Minister and newly elected president of Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed
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President Michele Capasso and other members of the International Executive Committee of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace - MAMT participated in various events of the 2019 edition of the "Journées Cinematographiques de Carthage - Carthage Film Festival", held at the “Cité de la culture” and in other significant places.
Marco Bellocchio is among the Italian guests.

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