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Museum of Broken Relationships / Muzej prekinutih veza

2 Ćirilometodska ulica, Krapinsko-zagorska županija 10000 Croatia

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“A heart beaker of a museum”

The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum's collection. Whatever the motivation for donating personal belongings – be it sheer exhibitionism, therapeutic relief, or simple curiosity – people embraced the idea of exhibiting their love legacy as a sort of a ritual, a solemn ceremony.  Our societies oblige us with our marriages, funerals, and even graduation farewells, but deny us any formal recognition of the demise of a relationship, despite its strong emotional effect.  In the words of Roland Barthes in A Lover's Discourse: "Every passion, ultimately, has its spectator... (there is) no amorous oblation without a final theater." Conceptualized in Croatia by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, the Museum has since toured internationally, amassing an amazing collection. Although often colored by personal experience, local culture and history, the exhibits presented here form universal patterns offering us to discover them and feel the comfort they can bring. Hopefully they can also inspire our personal search for deeper insights and strengthen our belief in something more meaningful than random suffering.

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Tatiana Danger

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February 09, 2015
Rated 4.0

Over 180,000 people have visited the museum since it opened. There are over 700 items on display, and each are accompanied by an explanation of "what went wrong." The exhibits are intended to highlight the universality of heartbreak, the death of love, and how all relationships are doomed. Eternally. Or maybe I'm projecting.

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Museum of Broken Relationships / Muzej prekinutih veza

2 Ćirilometodska ulica
Krapinsko-zagorska županija
10000 Croatia
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