February is the month dedicated to Darwin to celebrate his birth, but it is also the month of the birth of Pietro Doderlein, the first Professor engaged for the first course of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy of the University of Palermo, and founder of the Museum of Zoology.
Darwin Day, the international event dedicated to the English naturalist who has revolutionized the thinking of the biological sciences, assumes, as a consequence, a double value within the collections of the Museum. Inspired by Darwin’s principles, the purpose of the exhibition is not only to draw the explorations and travels of Darwin on the Beagle, but also to review it from a different point of view from what we are used to; in fact, the thousands of different specimens collected by Pietro Doderlein, more than 150 years ago, will be the unusual guides in the Museum of Zoology of the University Museum System of the University of Palermo.