Casoria Contemporary Art Museum

The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum ( CAM) is a museum in Casoria in the Italian province of Naples. The idea for the museum was born in 2003 on the initiative of the municipality of Casoria and the Campania Region, as part of an action for regional revival under the title Una città per l' arte. The museum was inaugurated in 2005, under the direction of Antonio Manfredi, president of the nonprofit International Contemporary Art Center. The museum has an exhibition area of ​​3,500 m2. This is mainly devoted to the permanent collection of several thousand works by international artists. In April 2012, burned the works of his museum exhibition to protest against austerity measures. These were introduced in the wake of the Italian sovereign debt crisis and have a particularly detrimental effect on the financing of art by individuals from.