Based on the world record nomination from the Europe Records Institute (EURI) and Decision No. WK/USA.INDIA/1432/2026/No.887, World Records Union (WorldKings) officially declared the Museum of Fruit as the world's first museum.

The Museo della Frutta Francesco Garnier Valletti in Turin, Italy, is a unique, specialized scientific museum showcasing over 1,000 hyper-realistic, 19th-century artificial fruit models. Created by craftsman Francesco Garnier Valletti, these plaster and wax replicas, including hundreds of fruit varieties, were designed for botanical study and agricultural education.

This is a magnificent collection of three-dimensional reproductions of fruits made using the impressive “ceroplastics” technique by Francesco Garnier Valletti in the second half of the 1800s. Valleti, a unique personality, has remained the supreme artisan of this very particular material, having created useful models for science of such realism that they deceive even the most discerning of visitors; each object is the same color, shape, and weight as the original fruit.

He was fully aware of the unique quality of his skills, and he kept the formula for his materials a well-guarded secret. His art died with him, the inimitable imitator.

Valletti was master of a craft that he devoted to the agricultural sciences, but today he seems like a creator of beauty. It is as if, truly, art imitates nature, and the collection is a surprising, precious Wunderkammer, organized without prejudice in large, dark display cases. Over 1,000 works are on view; “plasticartificial fruits” of infinite variety, pears, apples, peaches, apricots, plums and cherries.

Like a wizard, Valletti knew how to reproduce everything in the field of botany. Like the great Arcimboldo in expertise, but without the aim of constructing metaphorical or surreal works, he placed his skill at the service of science, of the painstaking and erudite cataloguing of what nature makes available to humankind.

According to cabanamagazine.com