The quality of a Museum is not just deriving from its property or goods size but particularly from its capability to provide service, to promote research and culture as well as to contribute to an improvement of its surrounding territory.

A museum is cultural expression of territory; it contributes to build and fortify identity and social development of a community, it contributes to memory and cultural promotion.

With this in mind, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is working from almost three years on the Suburban area of Naples, Southern Italy, to contribute to its cultural development through projects and events.

CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum was born at the end of 2004 out of a project of the Municipality of Casoria (Naples) to offer to the town and to its suburban area a museum of contemporary art. The development and management of this project and idea was granted to the Onlus Cultural Association ” International Contemporary Art Center” by promoting projects on a local, national and international level.

CAM current collection of contemporary art works is not just bound to the art market but is aiming to a research into local, national and international languages and art trends.

CAM was not born as mere container of simulacra; the original project is close to what we would like a museum to be today: a place to develop culture and research, didactics, to stimulate an hermeneutical experience of contemporaneity, to visualize creativity and to learn and practise the complexity of today aesthetics.

· CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is directed by the artist and curator Antonio Manfredi surrounded by a team of young professionals.

· Its indoor area is 3500 sm. of which 3.000 sm. for permanent exhibition, 100 sm. for temporary exhibition, 100 sm. for experimental theatre/video-art/conference, 100 sm. as cataloguing and document center, 50 sm multimedia projection hall.

· It permanently exhibits and till now includes in its property 660 works of contemporary art as painting, sculpture, photography, video, multimedia art and installation of renowned artists from more than 60 countries worldwide.

· It boasts one of the biggest European collection of multimedia art as well as eastern art and the most complete collection of contemporary Neapolitan artists from the second post war till today.

· It carries activities of promotion, exhibition, cataloguing, maintenance of contemporary art works and volumes.

· Exhibitions and travelling events are planned in cooperation with well-known contemporary art museums worldwide: Sudo Contemporary Art Museum - Tokyo, Today Contemporary Art Museum - Beijing, MAC-Museo Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe_Argentina, Officyna Art Space Szczecin_Poland, MACRO-Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario_Argentina.

· It works with the aid of several local, national and international Cultural Associations and Foundations: “United Nations of the Arts Accademy” in Trieste, Italy, Canon Law Association “Carità Politica” in Città del Vaticano, Italy, “Norte” Foundation in Saragoza_Spain, “Tempus Artis” Cultural Association in Landen_Belgium, Cultural Association “SAFIR Association“ in Regensburg_Germany, “Circolo de Arte de Toledo” in Toledo_Spain, Association “Artrageous Association” in Nicosya_Cyprus, Association “Duppini NPO Association” in Tornovo_Bulgaria, Association “Likovno Drustvo” in Kranj_Slovenia, Association “Linhao Culture and Arts Exchange Centre” in Beijing_China, Association “Mrittika International Art Center” in Santiniketan_West Bengala (India), Onlus Association “Sole urbano” in Napoli, Italy, Onlus Association “Golpe Movement Association” in Milan, Italy, “Fondazione Ferrara” in Rome, Italy, “Fondazione Malice” in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

· It takes part to the biggest Italian Fair Trade of Contemporary Art, MIART in Milan and ARTISSIMA in Torino.

· It promotes guided tours in its facilities for teachers, pupils and students.

· For info and meetings, please contact the Secretariat of CAM_Casoria Ph/Fax +39 (0)81 757616