The museum is dedicated to the two giants of science and evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn, promotes the knowledge of the evolution of marine biodiversity. The Museum was inaugurated in December 2021 and visitors will voyage through the oceans over time in the footsteps of Darwin and Dohrn and many other scientists, discovering how organisms became adapted to all marine environments. It also houses, in a six-metre high wall, ten thousand preparations of animals from the Gulf of Naples, set up by the genius of Salvatore Lo Bianco and by those who followed in 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 the current research updated and exhibited month by month