{"id":1087,"date":"2020-07-30T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garethhacking.co.uk\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2020-07-27T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T10:30:38","slug":"the-museum-of-broken-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garethhacking.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/the-museum-of-broken-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Broken Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[I discovered most of the following in an old draft folder so decided to dig it out and finish it up, thinking I had photographs to accompany the text. Unfortunately, a root through my backup drives yielded no images, hence the lack of them here.] <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, while exploring Zagreb with an out-of-date guidebook, I was intrigued by new tourist signs directing the way to <a href=\"https:\/\/brokenships.com\/visit\/museum-details\">The Museum of Broken Relationships<\/a>. Not knowing anything about it, I presumed it was museum dedicated to the break-up of Yugoslavia that had been given a clever title. But upon discovering the museum, I realised its name was meant literally.<\/p>\n<p>A travelling international exhibition that\u2019s found a home in Zagreb and, lately, Los Angeles, The Museum comprises of donated items, each of symbolic significance to its donator of the breakup of a past relationship. Accompanying each item is a text explaining the background and the reason for its donation. Some were funny. Some were sombre. All were short, to the point and written from the heart &#8211; short sentences encapsulating months, sometimes years of heartbreak. Of course, one person\u2019s pain is another\u2019s mirth, as evidenced by the couple of teenage girls walking around the exhibition giggling away.<\/p>\n<p>The collection is divided into a number of sub sections highlighting before reasons for breaking-up, with such titles as<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition space is surprisingly extensive, with a number of small rooms to explore. Entrance and exit is via the gift shop, which contains such lovely gifts as \u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.brokenships.com\/en\/shop\/products\/stationery\/bad_memories_eraser\">&#8220;Bad memories&#8221; erasers<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.brokenships.com\/en\/shop\/products\/books\/bookmark\">&#8220;Turn over a new leaf&#8221; bookmarks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exploration of a most unusal museum in Zagreb, Croatia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Museum of Broken Relationships - a most unusual museum located in Zagreb, Croatia.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[128],"tags":[143,141,142],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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