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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29 June 2016
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Today, Wednesday, June 29,2016, Naples opens the doors of the MUSEUM OF PEACE - MAMT (Mediterranean, Art, Architecture, Archaeology, Environment, Music, Migration, Traditions, Tourism): a space created by the Fondazione Mediterraneo, for over 25 years committed to dialogue and peace in the Mediterranean and the World.
The museum, conceived and directed by MICHELE CAPASSO, is located in the historic building of the former "Grand Hotel de Londres" in Piazza Municipio, in the heart of Naples, a few steps from the metro station designed by Alvaro Siza and the cruise port: a place for dialogue between the Mediterranean civilizations in which countries and international institutions join with the Mediterranean Foundation to counter terrorism through a unique and fascinating experience in the 12 emotional paths and in the spaces dedicated to Pino Daniele and Mario Molinari.
The Museum, with free admission, is a "House" to welcome and protect, as it is perceived by the word "MAMT", which in Neapolitan means "Thy Mother", the one who "welcomes". In the 5 floors on which the museum is located, it tells the story of what has united and unites the peoples of the Mediterranean and the World: Music, Science, Art, Creativity, Craftsmanship, Solidarity, Traditions, Costumes, Food, Destiny....
It is possible to visit twelve emotional paths, based on important themes such as Migration, Interreligious Dialogue, Music, Stories of Peace, Legality, all guided by more than 5,000 videos in high definition (4k) and by objects, finds and testimonies unique in the world that have contributed to define the Museum as "emotional heritage of humanity" and to give it the title of "Museum of Emotions".
Countries and international institutions - including the ONU, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and others - have adhered to the Museum's mission: to promote through high definition videos the "beauty" and what unites us. In the next 3 years "emotional" videos "on the environment, art, archaeology, architecture, religions and everything that unites us will be made all over the world (starting from the Mediterranean).
The Fondazione Mediterraneo already now proposes - through a system unique in the world, located on the 5 floors of the building, and with the help of 100 large videowalls - the vision of the first 200 videos made with music by Pino Daniele: the great musician is in fact dedicated to an entire floor of the Museum, in the section "PINO DANIELE ALIVE", in which his artistic life and his work is told,"emotionally".
The project of the Museum of Peace was founded in 1997, when President Michele Capasso appeals to more than 2,000 representatives of 36 countries meeting in Naples by the Mediterranean Foundation on the need to give peace a symbol was chosen then the "TOTEM OF PEACE" by sculptor MARIO MOLINARI and asked for a space to tell a story different from what we are being offered daily by the media (terrorism, migrants who die, corruption, poverty, wars) made of what unites us in beautiful, true, good: environment, architecture, art, traditions, culture, crafts, crafts, archeology, music, dance, etc.
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28 June 2016
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
With a sober ceremony - which was attended by ambassadors and diplomats, representatives of institutions and civil society, men and women from various countries of the Mediterranean - the Museum of Peace - MAMT was inaugurated..
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28 June 2016
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
Over 200 Italian and foreign journalists took part in the meeting room of the Museum of Peace - MAMT at the press presentation conference.
Coordinated by Riccardo Vitanza - head of the press office - they illustrated the aims and structure of the Michele Capasso, Jacopo Molinari and Alessandro Daniele Museum.
After the conference, journalists were able to visit some of the Museum's 12 emotional itineraries, in particular those dedicated to Pino Daniele and Mario Molinari.
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28 June 2016
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
In the presence of President Michele Capasso, Ambassador Dan Haezrachy (Embassy of Israel in Rome), Min. Pl. Enrico Granara (coordinator of the Mediterranean policies of MAECI), former ministers Antonio Bassolino and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, diplomats and general consuls of Morocco, Tunisia, France, Spain and Portugal, the MAMT "Israel Room" was inaugurated.
In this high-tech space with 4K high-definition screens, you can watch videos on the history of Israel and its evolution and admire particular objects from Judaism and its history.
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28 June 2016
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Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions
The section of the Museum of Peace - MAMT dedicated to the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) has aroused great interest: videos produced by the Fondazione Mediterraneo - historical leader of the Euro-Mediterranean organization - documents and a documentary centre involve visitors in a decade of interest that ALF has played for the dialogue with the Networks existing in 42 countries.
They spoke on this occasion:
