+

Cookies on the Business Insider India website

Business Insider India has updated its Privacy and Cookie policy. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the better experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we\'ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Business Insider India website. However, you can change your cookie setting at any time by clicking on our Cookie Policy at any time. You can also see our Privacy Policy.

Close
HomeQuizzoneWhatsappShare Flash Reads
 

Two exes created a museum exhibition with random objects people saved from former loves, from a stolen toaster to a wedding dress in a jar

Feb 25, 2018, 23:02 IST

Advertisement
Rina Ota/Reuters

  • The Museum of Broken Relationships features random objects people saved from former loves, like a stiletto heel and a piece of belly-button lint.
  • It's permanently located in Zagreb, Croatia, and also travels to cities around the world.
  • The museum was founded by two exes who were struggling to divide their possessions after they broke up.


The Museum of Broken Relationships is designed to make you cry, laugh, scratch your head, gasp in outrage - essentially to feel all the feels.

Headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, the museum is also a traveling exhibition that has popped up everywhere from New York City, to Tokyo, to Paris.

As novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison reported in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the museum was founded by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, who ended their romantic relationship with each other in 2003.

Flummoxed over how to divide their belongings, they wondered what it would be like to create an exhibit featuring items from breakups like theirs. The first version of that exhibition came to fruition three years later.

Today, the traveling exhibition continues to attract a steady stream of visitors, many of whom have shared snapshots of the items they saw - from the humorous (a stolen toaster) to the tragic (a juvenile court summons). Below, we've collected some of the most moving images from Instagram.

Next Article