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 Museum of Peace - MAMT remembers Pino Daniele three years after his death. With the entire floor dedicated to "Pino Daniele Alive" is an immersion between personal objects, videos, recordings, instruments and new tools that welcome the visitor in a unique and extraordinary emotional journey.

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Amanda Bonini, last partner of Pino Daniele, accompanied by her daughter Eleonora visited the Peace Museum and the section dedicated to "Pino Daniele Alive".
A journey between intense emotions and memories.
It was she who accompanied Pino - together with her son Alessandro - on her last visit to the Museum on December 18,2014, when the agreement with President Capasso was ratified for the realization of the section dedicated to the great musician.
Pino would be happy ", he said," because a space as he had imagined was created.
Thank you for your unique emotions!”.

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Continue at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples the review "The Museums today: issues of protection, conservation, education and management": a series of meetings in memory of Gerardo Marotta by the Institute of Art History of the same Academy , coordinated by Viviana Farina.
The professors of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples assist the speakers by animating the dialogue on the topics covered: on this occasion the proff. Michele Capasso (President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace) and Massimo Pica Ciamarra (Coordinator of the project of the Foundation "The cities of dialogue").
The topics covered (with videos and multimedia documents) were: The Museum of Peace - MAMT: emotions for young producers of the future and what future for the city of dialogue.Present at the meeting the director of the Museum of Peace - MAMT Pia Molinari.The works were introduced by the Director of the Academy of Fine Arts prof. Giuseppe Gaeta.On this occasion the prof. Michele Capasso recalled the affectionate bond with the lawyer. Marotta and her appreciation for the nascent Peace Museum - MAMT.

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Valentina, wife of the late Rino Zurzolo - musician and inseparable friend of Pino Daniele - took to the Museum of Peace - MAMT, in the study of the "Pino Daniele Alive" section, the classic bass and other Rino instruments that recall the beautiful moments in which he performed with Pino Daniele. An exciting moment to remember the bass player, the musician and the teacher of the Conservatory.

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