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!
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21 May 2023
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
A ceremony was held at the headquarters of the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace in memory of architect Vittorio Di Pace, who passed away at the age of 106 on 21 May 2013.
A member of the Foundation's Board of Directors and one of the promoters - with Gerardo Marotta and others - of the "United States of the World" and the "Interethnic City", he worked until the end for the Earth and for Peace.
Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari remembered their friend as an architect who was invaluable to the development of the Foundation.
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09 May 2023
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Students from various middle schools in Southern Italy gathered at the United States of the World Headquarters and the Museum of Peace for a simulation of the "United Nations" programme.
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03 May 2023
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Students and teachers from the "Giovanni Scotto" State Middle School in Ischia visited the Museum of Peace and the headquarters of the "United States of the World.
Welcomed by the Secretary General Prof. Michele Capasso, they walked the main emotional paths expressing their satisfaction for a unique place, heritage of humanity.
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26 April 2023
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
The institutional headquarters of the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace are enriched by a further precious emotional journey: the "Chapel consecrated to St. John Paul II°.
With access from Via Depretis, located on the mezzanine floor in a space set up in the "Saint John Paul II° Peace Library", the Chapel contains relics and artefacts of Pope John Paul II°.
Of particular significance is his support for the "United States of the World" project with the Vatican City flag he dedicated.
A plaque recalls His words to the promoters of the "United States of the World":
"You must never give up. You are in the right and true: as for the lack of freedom, remember that true and just freedom means having the right to do what you must".
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26 April 2023
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Pracal, a leading international company for the production of innovative shading systems, supports the Museum of Peace - MAMT and is the main sponsor.
Secretary General Prof. Michele Capasso met the owner Mr. Franco Pinto, accompanied by his wife Carmela and officials from the company, which is based in Polla (Salerno) and employs more than 250 workers.
On this occasion, attended by more than 150 architects and owners of leading companies in the production of building products, the awarding of the 2023 Mediterranean Economy and Enterprise Prize to Pracal and its owner Franco Pinto was announced.
The President of the International Committee, Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra, thanked them for their generosity and congratulated them on the quality of the interventions that guarantee, with the use of insulated steel shutters in the same colour as the United States of the World, the protection of sacred places in the Museum such as the Chapel dedicated to St. John Paul II°.
