MAAM: the museum of the other and the elsewhere

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A museum built in an old slaughterhouse. Its motto is "nihil difficile volenti", nothing is difficult for those who want it. An effective example of how art can save a run-down space. It all stems from an occupation, in 2009, of the former Fiorucci sausage factory on Via Prenestina, in the vast Roman suburbs. Thanks to the work of Giorgio de Finis, the MAAM's philosophy becomes that of a living encounter between the artists and the people of the neighbourhood, not just beautiful exhibitions, as in the other, albeit laudable initiative of the Macro at the former slaughterhouse in Testaccio, but interaction and forms of collective art, art as a barricade to resist, the idea of putting life where there was once death. There is no separation between spectators and artists when art enters a space and the space becomes art. A large and active toy library expresses this new way of understanding children. The MAAM in Rome represents the counter-song of a hybrid and living city that has summoned and fascinated many international artists. Visit the site