1859 was also the year in which Prof. Pellegrino Strobel became a professor at the University and Director of the Natural History Museum of Parma.

A reconstruction of Pellegrino Strobel’s study, featuring furnishings from his trip to Argentina and the steps he took in retracing part of Darwin’s itineraries in South America, describes the character and the revolutionary work carried out in the Museum to conceptually redevelop the exhibition in relation to the postulate of the Theory.