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!

Great emotions, memories, travels through the countries of the Mediterranean: these are the sensations of visitors to the Museum of Peace - MAMT that in this month of September are led through the 12 emotional paths. A visitor made a gift of a shirt donated by Pino Daniele at the beginning of his career.

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On September 9, 2016 the hon. Elisabeth Guigou - President of  Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of the French Republic and president of the Fondazione Anna Lindh (FAL) - accompanied by her husband Prof. Jean-Louis Guigou,  the Ambassador of Morocco in Italy Hassan Abouyoub, the consul General of France Jean-Paul Seytre, the consul general of Spain Fernando Sanchez Rau, the president of the City Council of Naples Doc. Alessandro Fucito, the delegate of the magnificent rector Prof. Gilberto Sammartino and other institutional representatives - visited the Museum of Peace for a long time expressing their appreciation and emotion.
This museum he has declared – is impressive and unique in the world and combines history, memory and new technologies in an exceptional way."
The hon. Guigou has been particularly entertained in the Marrakech room with its objects, exhibits and videos: a city where it was born and where it lived for 18 years. During the visit was accompanied by President Capasso and the Ambassador of Morocco in Italy Abouyoub.

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On a wonderful sunny day, in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 people, MadreTeresa di Calcutta is proclaimed Saint by Pope Francis.
A moment of joy, a great feast.
The Museum of Peace has long housed finds and videos by Madre Teresa, through a unique emotional journey.
Great joy among the visitors who were able to connect with Piazza San Pietro through the great videowalls and, at the same time, retrace in the Museum the fundamental stages of this Little Sister, Great in Love and Mercy.

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Sister Maria Pia Giudici, protagonist of one of the emotional paths of the Museum, comments on the action of Michele Capasso and underlines the importance of being "Hunters of the positive" at a very difficult time in our history.
We must be optimistic and look at the world with Joy, in simplicity and sobriety ": this is the message of the religious.

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