This exhibition was created on the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and has the primary purpose of remembering the memory and work of this great eclectic English naturalist. He was the creator and member of important scientific expeditions, the most famous of which is the one to the Galapagos Islands. He proved himself to be a man of science and of great intuitive abilities, he distinguished himself as a geologist, ornithologist, herpetologist, botanist and entomologist. We know that he was also a skilled taxidermist. The British Museum in London preserves much material collected and prepared by him. He was the author of many texts, but the most important is certainly “ On The Origin of Species ” published in London in 1859 and translated into several languages. The theories on the evolution of the species contained in this monumental and innovative work soon became the object of animated discussions and criticisms by the most conservative scientific world, even religious movements looked with suspicion at the theories he advanced. Today we can safely say that he was the precursor of a whole series of scientific discoveries and deductions that are considered well-founded and valid. The exhibition has managed to collect and display rare first editions in Italian and foreign languages ​​relating to his most important studies and bibliographies on his life, together with a singular commemorative philatelic-numismatic collection, but what is most impressive is the faithful life-size reproduction of Charles Darwin who is shown sitting at his work table intent on examining texts and bird skins. He was depicted when he had reached the age of seventy, dressed in period clothes of English manufacture. The exhibition also includes the life-size reconstruction of some animals that he studied and examined more carefully: two giant Galapagos tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra) created to be touched and ridden by children; an adult dodo (Raphus cucullatus) that became extinct in 1680 in Mauritius and an adult great auk (Pinguinus impennis), a species that we know he studied carefully precisely because of their unique structure. The exhibition is also accompanied by numerous descriptive posters 70 x 100 cm framed in plexiglass, which can be displayed on special metal grids, in compliance with all current accident prevention regulations. Not to be underestimated is the series of cast or original skulls relating to the various evolutionary phases of hominids that were at the center of his most challenging studies and theories. It is also possible to display two of his original taxidermic preparations in leather relating to two bird species.