The traveling museum of failed love
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Coming Soon | ‘The Museum of Broken Relationships’
Love letters, scrapbooks, pressed flowers, vials of blood: these relationship mementos finally have a place to call home. “The Museum of Broken Relationships” is a roving exhibition of donated objects organized by Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic in Croatia as a cathartic response to the emotional turmoil of love lost. Along with an anonymous short story detailing the emotional resonance of each donation, these artifacts of failed romances provide a much-needed alternative to the usual heartbreak-recovery methods like Charlie Kaufman’s memory erasure and/or binge drinking.
Currently showing in Kilkenny, Ireland, with plans to return to North America in 2010, the exhibition boasts more than 100 artifacts submitted from around the world. And it expands with every city it visits as the heartbroken share their pain by depositing the detritus of their defunct relationships
