Museum splitting pairs
February 11th 2009 06:42
Some things are harder to spin than others. Take, for example, the Museum of Broken Relationships, a travelling exhibit that features the objects people leave behind after splitting up.
The museum, it was reported this week, is a collection started by a pair of Croatian exes who wanted to honour their dead relationship.
What seems to be missing in this explanation is logic. If they were exes, and if their relationship was dead, where exactly was the attraction in honouring it?
The museum seems to have have overcome these logic bumps in its evolution, however, and become a viable business. It now features exhibits from lost romances from around the globe, including a set of furry handcuffs, love letters, underwear, a wedding dress, some gall stones, an axe and a wooden leg from a Balkan war veteran who fell in love with a nurse in a field hospital.
The Museum of Broken Relationships will cease travelling for two weeks from February 14 and make its home at San Francisco’s Root Division Gallery.
See you there.
The museum, it was reported this week, is a collection started by a pair of Croatian exes who wanted to honour their dead relationship.
What seems to be missing in this explanation is logic. If they were exes, and if their relationship was dead, where exactly was the attraction in honouring it?
The museum seems to have have overcome these logic bumps in its evolution, however, and become a viable business. It now features exhibits from lost romances from around the globe, including a set of furry handcuffs, love letters, underwear, a wedding dress, some gall stones, an axe and a wooden leg from a Balkan war veteran who fell in love with a nurse in a field hospital.
The Museum of Broken Relationships will cease travelling for two weeks from February 14 and make its home at San Francisco’s Root Division Gallery.
See you there.
www.brokenships.com, www.guardian.co.uk
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