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 president Michele Capasso met architect  Alvaro Siza to define his contributions to the new MAMT - Mediterranean Museum for Arts, Music and Traditions.

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American environmentalist Tom Fox visited in preview MAMTMediterranean Museum for Arts, Music and Traditions, praising this important initiative by Fondazione Mediterraneo.
He was particular impressed by the section dedicated to Raffaele Capasso and his example of politician voted to the Common Good and his population: “A rare case in a world based only upon money and particular interests” he declared.

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The MIP, pizza international museum, is one of the most interesting sections of MAMT which, along with showing panels with the history of the two food and  “objects‑relics” which are showing their story and evolution through the millenniums, hosts a dedicated  taste itinerary in which is possible to go through the cultural history and enjoy the typical Neapolitan pizza. This section is looked after by  Fondazione Mediterraneo and Neapolitan Pizza Chef Association and represents an excellence for the city. The announcement was made during a press conference in which joined the Major  Luigi De Magistris.

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A delegation led by Min.Pl. Enrico Granara, coordinator of the euro Mediterranean policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the construction site of MAMT preview - Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions, focusing in particular on the crib eighteenth century Giuseppe Ferrigno donated to the Foundation and the Mediterranean is taking place in the Museum.

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