Museum of Broken Relationships

The Museum of Broken Relationships is a museum dedicated to failed love relationships. Its exhibits include personal objects left over from former lovers, accompanied by brief descriptions.

The "museum" began as a traveling collection of donated items. Since then it has found a permanent location and received the Kenneth Hudson Award for Europe's most innovative museum in 2011.

History
The museum was founded by two artists - Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić. After their four-year love relationship came to an end in 2003, the two joked about setting up a museum to house the left-over personal items. Three years later they started asking their friends to donate objects left behind from their break-ups, and the collection was born.

In the years that followed, the collection went on a world tour, visiting Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Macedonia, the Philippines, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Between 2006 and 2010, the collection was seen by more than 200.000 visitors. Along the way, it gathered new items donated by members of the public.

The Ministry of Culture had no interest in finding a temporary location for the museum, so Vištica and Grubišić decided to make a private investment and rent a 300-square-meter space, making it the city's first privately owned museum. The museum, finally opened in October 2010.

Concept
The project is divided into several segments:

• Material remains layout includes the objects and documents like photographs, letters, and messages. Items are presented with dates and locations of the relationship, and annotations by their anonymous donors. 
• Virtual web museum enables the registered visitors to become donors through uploading their images and documents. Donors can decide whether to open their personal collections for viewing by other users of the museum.
• Confessional is the interactive part of the museum in which visitors can store their objects or messages, or record their confessions in a restricted and intimate space.

Images sources: http://finelinetravels.com/2014/09/11/our-favourites-from-zagreb-croatia/ and https://brokenships.com/en/about/download