Museum of Broken Relationships

"It was 300 days too long. He gave me his cell phone so I couldn’t call him any more."

Museum Of Broken Relationships is a website and touring exhibition of stories and donated objects that represent broken relationships.

You can participate by donating an object and sharing a story. A donation form can be found at the museum's website. [via Guerilla Innovation]

The Museum offers every individual the chance to overcome the emotional collapse through creation, .e., by contributing to the holdings of the Museum. The individual gets rid of ‘controversial objects’, triggers of momentarily ‘undesirable’ emotions, by turning them into museum exhibits, i.e., artefacts and thereby participating in the creation of a preserved collective emotional history.

The user can ‘store’ in every directory whatever may still function of a trigger of a painful memory:

a) photographs,

b) existing e-mail messages (which can be sent directly from the user’s inbox to his own web directory,

c) SMS messages (which can also be sent directly from the user’s phone to the Museum web).

emily | 10:37 AM | SMS and the Arts |
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