In the heart of Arezzo, Central Italy, there is a secret gallery where you can buy dinosaurs,
space suits, lunar fragments or the original Harry Potter wand.
Luca Cableri is the owner of Theatrum Mundi.
He travels the world hunting for impossible objects.
Theatrmu Mundi is closed to the public.
Only customers and the press have the opportunity to enter.
But who buys a T-Rex skull or Thor's hammer?
I'm taking a rather special, but silent, housefriend into the office today.
Let me show you.
As you will notice he is a rather steady and impressive personality
but quite silent, he's never talking back to me.
I met Luca at an art fair in Brussels in 2019.
Well, in fact I ended up buying quite some items from Luca,
amongst which you see a few of them here nexct to me.
First there is my Batman - he's not joining us for the interview, he's a bit silent.
But then there's also an origninal piece of the moon, and an original piece of Mars.
I bought some, quite simply, as an investment, to be honest.
because if you buy rare pieces and special pieces - really Luca is a specialist
to be able to gather them, it's really unique in the world -
it's a good investment. But then secondly, you enjoy it everyday when you look at it
it inspires you, makes you think about the world, it gives you ideas
you get amazing reactions, and you can enjoy it daily until the day you sell it.
But, to be honest, until now I have never sold one piece
from the pieces I bought from Luca because they are very special to me.
The most important parts I bought from Luca, from Theatrum Mundi,
I think were the fossil, 50 million years old, but you also have to take into account
it's also really a big piece, it's more than 2m high, or 2m wide,
and it's extremely rare. When the budget is concerned, it was around €75,000-€100,000.
The other parts, such as Batman or the original parts of Mars and the Moon
are more or less in the same region, or budget, a bit less or equal, lets say between
€50,000 to €75,000 to €100,000.
The part that moves me the most, is maybe the smallest one.
It's just this small piece of Mars.
It's so extraordinary that you can actually hold it and touch it,
and it comes from so incredibly far.
The authenticity of it is extremely important.
It's extremely important that you realise to which gallery, or person or specialist
you are buying, because also that point of contact is sometimes your guarentee
that you are buying something authentic.
This is a booming market, but how can you distinguish true from false
when looking for items worth millions of euros?
Fausto Casi verifies the authenticity of scientific objects for Theatrum Mundi.