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 President Capasso has carried out a report on the themes of migration and interculturality to the students of the first and second level secondary school of the Maria Ausiliatrice Institute of Naples-Vomero.
"Dialogue between cultures and interculturality is the fundamental pillar for peace - said Capasso - and through the encounter with witnesses and the comparison with individual experiences it is possible to understand an epoch-making phenomenon that will only be resolved by transforming the concept of tolerance in that of coexistence ".
At the end of the meeting the students attended the projection of the video of the emotional journey "Voices of the Migrants" of the Museum of PeaceMAMT.

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The pupils of the first and second level secondary school of the Maria Ausiliatrice Institute of Naples-Vomero reflected on the richness of the dialogue between cultures and on interculturality as a way that leads to peace. Through the meeting with witnesses, the comparison in thematic workshops and the presentation of their works at the Fondazione Mediterraneo - for 30 years engaged in the dialogue between cultures - and the Museum of Peace - MAMT have been able to make an intense journey through interculturality and compare individual experiences.
Welcomed by President Michele Capasso and the Museum staff, they were able to reflect for two days on cultural identity, intercultural dialogue, integration, harmony of differences, knowledge of the structural mechanisms at the origin of the current imbalances between nations and continents and the tools to combat them. various levels in the cultural, political, economic and social fields.

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After the unforgettable days of Panama, the World Youth Days (WYD) continue their journey and in 2022 Portugal will welcome them!
A great joy for a friendly country protagonist at the Museum of Peace.
Thanks to Don Angel Fernandez Artime and to all the Salesians of Don Bosco for their contribution to this wonderful event.

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The participants in the seventh edition of "IMUN - Naples" - the largest simulation of diplomatic processes organized in Campania with the participation of more than 400 students from Italian secondary schools - visited the Museum of Peace - MAMT.
Welcomed by President Capasso expressed appreciation for a unique and extraordinary place.

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