The Naples Aquarium is currently the oldest in the world to have maintained its original structure.
January 26, 2024, will mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Naples Aquarium and the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station.
The celebrations will take place on January 26th, starting at 9.30:XNUMX a.m., in the Multipurpose Room of the Darwin Dohrn Museum, with a brief presentation of the history of the Aquarium, its restoration, and the facilities of the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station open to the public: the Aquarium, the Portici Turtle Recovery Center, and the Darwin Dohrn Museum.
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A five-year restoration led to the aquarium's reopening, employing modern display techniques that prioritize animal welfare as well as spectacular display. It is a scientific aquarium that aims to showcase, as Dohrn originally intended, the fauna and flora of the Gulf of Naples.
The Anton Dohrn Zoological Station (National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology, and Biotechnology) has as its primary purpose marine research in all its facets, but since its founding, it has paid particular attention to what is now called its "third mission": the transfer of knowledge to the general public, to which it dedicates its three facilities, visited each year by thousands of students and citizens. This mission is particularly important at a time when environmental issues and the ecological transition are becoming increasingly important.
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