Mare Memoria Viva is many beautiful things at once: an ecomuseum that tells the story of Palermo and its sea through memoirs and artworks on the city's coastal landscape, a cultural, educational, and environmental center, a garden with a café, and a space for gathering, chatting, and meeting.
The Museum
Siamo l'unico ecomuseo urbano del sud che racconta la storia della costa di Palermo dalla voce di abitanti e con le opere di artisti, un museo laboratorio che propone pratiche ecologiche e culturali su mare e città.
Our activities are driven by an educational, environmental and social mission. With our visits for students, children and teens, we let the sea teach respect, cooperation, impermanence, resilience and depth, and most importantly, freedom.
We are a center for artistic production and intergenerational aggregation. A space that curates and hosts a program of cultural events, workshops, conferences, training camps, fairs, and festivals.
MMV is a multi-purpose cultural and education center that, in addition to the visits to the ecomuseum, offers spaces for indoor and outdoor cultural and educational activities and events with a garden, a café and restaurant, a theater and conference room, and spaces for workshops and educational activities
Lido is the kitchen bar at the ecomuseum run by the social enterprise Cucina Costiera, which created the eponymous manifesto. Lido is a culinary, cultural and anthropological project and, above all, it is a place where you feel happy
The association Mare Memoria Viva
Our mission is to "Give Palermo back its sea." Sea means beauty, movement, opportunity, and rights.
Mare Memoria Viva concentrates in three words the meaning of a project that combines art, education and landscape regeneration to promote actions of cultural participation, environmental justice and social capacity-building.
Association Mare Memoria Viva ETS Legal address: Via F. Potenzano No. 5, 90138 Palermo Tax code: 97304900828 VAT number: 06588240827 Headquarters: Via Messina Marine 14