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Darwin 1809 - 2009
Exactly two hundred years after the birth of the great scientist and 150 years since the publication of The Origin of the Species, the exhibition DARWIN 1809-2009 will be inaugurated in Rome in the newly restored Palazzo delle Esposizioni (2009 February - May) and will then move on to Milan (2009 June 4th - October 25th).

DARWIN, the spectacular international exhibition about the father of the theory of evolution, is based on an exhibition organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with Museum of Science, Boston, The Field Museum, Chicago, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Natural History Museum, London. It has already visited Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia, and is on its way to London, Tokyo and other important world capitals. The exhibition will also be coming to Italy, in a version that has been specially readapted and enlarged by two famous evolutionists, Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall.

The exhibition is planned, organized and managed by Codice. Idee per la cultura.
In Rome in collaboration with Azienda Speciale Palaexpo.
In Milan in collaboration with Civita and Comune di Milano.
In Bari in collaboration with Regione Puglia.


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The exhibition is set under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano

with the patronage of
Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici
Fondazione Umberto Veronesi
Società Italiana di Biologia Evoluzionistica
Codice Idee per la cultura Palaexpo Comune di Milano Regione Puglia Civita