The Civic Museum of Zoology of Rome, located in an area adjacent to the Bioparco and adjacent to the splendid Villa Borghese park, collects the tradition of Roman naturalistic collections active in the papal courts since 1790 and of the zoology cabinet of the Pontifical University. It was founded in 1932 and today it is part of the system of the Museums in the Municipality. The collections of the Civic Museum of Zoology have a great scientific value with unique materials in Italy and Europe. Of considerable importance is the ornithological section. The museum, which is included in the list of scientific museums of national importance of the Ministry for University and Scientific Research, houses entomological, malacological, osteological, ornithological, herpetological, ichthyological and mammalian collections for over four million specimens. The Civic Museum of Zoology has a heritage of about 5 million preserved specimens, ranging from mollusc shells of a few millimeters to the 16-meter whale. These collections derive in part from an agreement with the then Royal University of Rome (today La Sapienza) which also collected the prestigious collections of the Archiginnasio Pontificio, in part from donations made after its establishment. However, most of this immense patrimony is kept in particular warehouses, and is available to researchers who request to study them or is exhibited on particular occasions. The museum therefore represents a real archive of biodiversity, as well as a heritage for the whole community. The underlying theme of the new exhibition is biodiversity in the animal world. Through the rooms of bestial loves, live on the edge, the coral reef, the wetlands of the Roman countryside, the Arrigoni degli Oddi collection of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, up to the spectacular skeletons hall, also using multimedia tools and multisensory, visitors will be able to learn about the different animal forms and understand their origin and adaptations to multiple types of environment. The approximately 3 million pieces of the Marquis of Monterosato, which also includes the Brugnone collection, stand out among the collections of malacology (a branch of zoology that studies molluscs).