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The Museum of Broken Relationships finds permanent home
Way back in 2007 we reported on the Museum of Broken Relationships, a traveling exhibition of mementos from love affairs turned sour. Well, the idea has been gaining steam, and now the museum has opened up a permanent exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia.The museum is perhaps unique in that all of its collections come from individual donations. They come with a story too. Take this teddy, for example, donated by a woman who wrote, "'I love you' – WHAT A LIE! LIES, DAMN LIES! Yes, it's like that when you are young, naïve and in love. And you don't realize your boyfriend started dating you just because he wanted to take you to bed! I got this teddy bear for Valentine's. He survived on top of my closet in a plastic bag, because it wasn't him who hurt me, but the idiot who left him behind."
Ouch. Love hurts. The museum contains hundreds of stories like this. There's the wedding dress from a failed marriage, the artificial leg of a man jilted by a nurse, and a guy's cell phone he gave to his girlfriend so she couldn't call him anymore.
Is there anything you'd donate to the Museum of Broken Relationships? Tell us in the comments section! Is there anything I'd donate? Nope, I threw it away years ago.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
heather Oct 7th 2010 9:42PM
Oh i can think of quite a few things i would like to donate!!!!!
Lynn Oct 7th 2010 10:06PM
I would donate my engagement ring...oh yeah, I almost forgot. My husband gave it to the girl he moved in the day I left!
taylor Oct 8th 2010 6:13AM
lol oh i gave my ex fiance of 3 years his ten dollar engagement ring back after 3 years of guilt, him tearing me down and ruining my family... i dated him since my sophomore year in highschool... =[ i left him what... 2-3 months ago, he used to be a sweet guy but... ... hes just one guy you don't wanna tell no... he will disrespect you, your family all together. hes gone cause he couldn't understand No so i was wondering can i donate his virginity? lmao it's useless to me
Donalyn Oct 7th 2010 10:40PM
I still have the pony tail my 17 year old boyfriend cut off with his pocket knife. But I wouldn't take a thousand dollars for it. The memory is priceless.
beth Oct 7th 2010 11:33PM
Can I donate my ex husband?
chris veltri Oct 8th 2010 12:41AM
Oh, I have his college class ring, college wrestling letter sweater, and his college diplomas,you can see how much these things meant to him, but they meant a lot to me, and I'd love to donate them, he could have passed them down to his last 2 wives but I guess they didn't even know they existed, well at least his kids can have these momentos, they sure won't get much of any thing else.
517 Oct 8th 2010 1:17AM
These 7 words wrote on a piece of paper I was in love very very much,later on this came. Illusion,deceptive,shattered,crushed,scared,alone-nonthing
Katy Oct 8th 2010 4:10AM
I have over 200 letters from Vietnam filled with "longing," and "missing," and "my wonderful wife," along with a wedding ring I wore for 20 years inscribed with "forever," 3 books of journals I wrote just to make it through to the next day after he left for my best friend, and pictures of a life of a little family of three that could have made it, but for some twist of fate or failure, didn't. "The saddest words of sword or pen are but the words 'it might have been.'
Sally G Oct 8th 2010 1:31PM
Ouch! What pain in your letter. I send you healing kindness. They are not all bums, though it sounds as though yours turned out to be one. Hope in time you can look back on the better memories: cherish the third person in that family of three, and know that there is support out there.
Best always.
Brokenships Oct 9th 2010 7:09PM
It seems your mementos deserve a place in the Museum You should send them over to Croatia.
David S. Oct 8th 2010 3:26AM
Sounds like a depressing place to visit......and Croatia? Really? Doesn't that country have far bigger problems? Good luck to them.
Sally G Oct 8th 2010 1:32PM
Actually, David, if one is in a good relationship, I think that it could be depressing, indeed. But for those who are heartbroken and trying to recover from their own broken relationship, it might do good to consider how others’ relationships have gone sour and feel comforted knowing that you are not alone—or serve as a needed splash of cold water on those getting-back-together fantasies that impede healing.
April Oct 8th 2010 3:59AM
I had no idea how much I loved someone till they were gone. My husband was there for me through thick and thin, the good the bad the ugly and the uglier. He cared for me no matter what I did. Having been abused as a child, I thought for sure he would leave me so I decided that I would hurt him before he had the chande to hurt me. After 40 years, I realized he loved me unconditionally and always would. We renewed our vows in Jamaica after 39 years and on Jan 17 we celebrated 40 years. I loved him more than the day I married him. He was killed instantly in a tractor accident on April 3. There is nothing worse than a broken relationship that you don't have a chance to make right, no I'm sorry's, no last I love you's nothing, no chance to say anything not even goodbye. I wished I'd have known all these years how much he really loved me. How sad.
riverpeaches Oct 8th 2010 10:35AM
I May not have the items "but" I've got a ton of the emotional scars!!!!!!!