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16 International Congress ICOC

Social dinner

Friday - October 15th 2027 - 7.30 pm

Darwin Dohrn Museum

Viale Anton Dohrn

The social dinner will be held at the Darwin-Dohrn Museum – DaDoM,; the museum is dedicated to the two giants of science and evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn, and promotes knowledge on the evolution of marine biodiversity. The Museum was inaugurated in December 2021, and visitors will travel across the oceans through time in the footsteps of Darwin and Dohrn and many other scientists, discovering how organisms evolved and adapted to marine environments. The Museum also houses, in a six-meter-high wall, a collection of ten thousand prepared and preserved animals  from the Gulf of Naples, set up by Salvatore Lo Bianco (a great and innovative taxidermist and collections curator, who worked in the Station at the end of the XIX century; particularly famous is the preserved coral branch with expanded polyps) and by those who followed his footsteps in the art of conservation. The museum itinerary also includes a journey through the studies and ancient maps of the Gulf of Naples, the discoveries of the over 20 Nobel laureates who conducted their studies in the SZN, up to current research updated and exhibited month by month.