On 12 October 1989, Jean-Marie Pérès and Robert Vigouroux, Mayor of Marseille, celebrated the centenary of the Endoume marine station, by unveiling a commemorative plaque located just below the profile of A.-F. Marion.

The Marine Station has developed a long tradition of systematic biology and has housed renowned specialists in zoological groups such as sponges, annelids, lophophorates (brachiopods and phoronids) or bryozoa.

[5] In 2007, the Endoume marine station was threatened by a relocation project which aimed to abandon the historic building of Malmousque to bring together all the scientific activities of the Marseille Oceanology Center on the Luminy campus, inside the land.

This project, which could be linked to real estate greed, then encountered strong opposition within the scientific community because it called into question the access to the sea necessary for many themes developed in this laboratory.

[5] However, in 2011 the building was incorporated into the entity known under the generic name of Center d'Océanologie de Marseille, thus confirming the disappearance of the name Station Marine d'Endoume, as inaugurated in 1886 by A-F Marion.