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!

SILVIA LEVENSON VISITS THE PEACE MUSEUM AND SIGNS THE KIMIYYA MANIFESTO

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Naples | 27 February 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

Silvia Levenson - an internationally renowned glass artist - visited the Museum with a view to the creation of a section dedicated to glass art, in which she promised to participate with one of her significant works.
On this occasion, she signed the 'Kimiyya Manifesto' for the defence of women.
In President Capasso's interview, she stated:
"I was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. I was part of a generation that fought to change a society that seemed terribly unjust. In 1976, when the military took power, I was nineteen years old and in August of that year my daughter Natalia was born. She was the same age as those young people whose biological identity was stolen by the military. With unprecedented cruelty, pregnant prisoners were murdered only after giving birth, while the babies were illegally given for adoption. What happened between 1976 and 1983 changed my life and influenced my artistic work. An important part of my work is to reveal or make visible what is normally hidden or cannot be seen, and I use glass to represent this metaphor. We have always used glass to preserve food and drink, I use glass to preserve the memory of people and objects for future generations."

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THE FOUNDATION AND THE MUSEUM OF PEACE CELEBRATE NATIONAL BRAILLE DAY

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Naples | 21 February 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

The Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace - MAMT celebrated "National Braille Day": an anniversary established by Law No. 126 of 3 August 2007. It is celebrated annually on 21 February, as a moment to raise public awareness of blind people, coinciding with the World Day for the Defence of Linguistic Identity promoted by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). In fact, this system allows blind people to access the written cultural heritage of humanity.
As part of this day, the Foundation with the Museum of Peace - one of the most important in the world for adaptation to the blind and with innovative tactile maps and works - promotes suitable awareness-raising and solidarity initiatives, as well as studies, conferences, meetings and debates at schools and in the mainstream media, to draw attention and information to the importance of the Braille system in the lives of visually impaired people and of all those directly or indirectly involved in their affairs, in order to develop public policies and private behaviour that broaden the possibilities for real social inclusion and access to culture and information for all those with visual impairments.

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ANNIVERSARIES AT THE MUSEUM: THE CENTENARY OF FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI'S BIRTH

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Naples | 12 February 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

A great influx of visitors to the Museum of Peace  - MAMT for the centenary of Franco Zeffirelli's birth: on the 107 large video walls the documentary on the life of the great director and his main works.
President Michele Capasso, in connection with various schools, recalled the figure of Zeffirelli and his friendship with Gustavo Rol.
"Thanks to Franco," said Capasso, "Gustavo Rol took part in the "Domenica In" programme with Raffaella Carrà on 11 January 1987, where he launched the "Appeal for the United States of the World" that has underpinned the Fondazione Mediterraneo's work for 35 years".
On this occasion, stamps with philatelic cancellation created by the "Poste italiane" were distributed.

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A NEW SECTION OF THE MUSEUM DEDICATED TO ART GLASS

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Naples | 02 January 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

During a visit to the Museum of Peace - MAMT and the United States of the World headquarters, guests of Dr. Antonio Romano and officials of the integrated design company Athena were able to appreciate the beauty of the emotional pathways, which are part of the heritage of humanity.
On this occasion, art glass collector Sandro Pezzoli announced his intention to donate a significant part of his collection of pieces from all over the world to the Museum and the United States of the World.
On this occasion, Prof. Andrea Zepponi donated some examples of his book "Virginia Colombati, maestra di belcanto" (Marsilio Editore) and performed on the piano.

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