Como decía Lorelai Gilmore, uno debería guardar las cosas de sus relaciones pasadas porque en algún momento va a ser lindo volver a encontrarlas. El Museo de las Relaciones Rotas, o en inglés The Museum of Broken Relationships, ha sido llevado a más de 20 ciudades en el mundo.
Todas las imágenes son propiedad de Broken Ships
El Museo de las Relaciones Rotas nace el 2006 en Croacia a manos de Olinka Vištica y Dražen Grubišić. Su propuesta era ofrecer una oportunidad para superar el corazón roto a través de la contribución a esta institución. Lo importante es reflejar el amplio espectro de las relaciones fallidas, mediante los objetos que dejan, desde un oso de peluche que declara el amor a un dildo.
Desde su fundación, la colección itinerante ha sido llevada a Argentina, Bosnia, Alemania, Sudáfrica, Estados Unidos, entre otros. La idea es mostrar que, sin importar la nacionalidad, todos sufrimos por amor. Más de 200.000 espectadores alrededor del mundo han visto estos objetos que se han transformado en un artefacto artístico.
La pena y el dolor que puede producir un corazón roto puede hacernos sentir miserables y muy solos. Sin embargo, este museo demuestra que es una experiencia universal. ¿Has terminado una relación últimamente? ¿has sufrido penas de amor? puedes transformarte en un donante mediante su sitio web, para luego recibir un correo electrónico con más información sobre cómo puedes ser parte de su exhibición.
¿Qué donarías tú? Estos son algunos de los objetos que hasta el momento son parte de la colección
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- Frankfurt city map 1997 – 1998 | Zagreb, Croatia “A long-distance relationship. I saw Frankfurt in flesh much, much later on.”
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- A diary 1968 | Zagreb, Croatia “A heartbreaking diary from 1968. Could be compared to today’s text messages, but in other times.”
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- A plush Snoopy 30 years | Leiden, Netherlands “He gave Snoopy to me on my 17th birthday. We had fallen in love six months earlier, on October 5, 1981. Thirty years down the line, we had three sons, a house etc. He fell in love with another woman and he chose her… He broke my heart. Telling me that he hadn’t really loved me in those 30 years. I just don’t understand.”
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- A key bottle opener January 23, 1988 – June 30, 1998 | Ljubljana, Slovenia “You talked to me of love, gave me small gifts every day; this is just one of them. The key to the heart. You turned my head; you just did not want to sleep with me. I realized how much you loved me only after you died of AIDS.”
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- An unopened Candy G-string 2004 – 2008 | Winterthur, Switzerland “This was what he thought was ‘romantic’ – a thong made of candy. I laughed but never took it out of the package. He never bought me flowers because flowers, he said, were for boring people. Instead I got sausages or new parts for my bicycle. I didn’t mind because I loved him. After four years he turned out to be as cheap and shabby as his presents. He cheated on me with a colleague from the office and dumped me via e-mail.”
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- An owl locket January 2010 – March 2010 | London, UK “This is a locket bought for my first love. I came out as gay when I was 20, and she was my first girlfriend. The relationship only lasted a couple of months, but it was enough time for me to convince myself that I was madly in love with her. I bought her this locket a few days before she broke up with me. It wasn’t expensive and there was no special occasion attached to it; it just made me think of her. She loved birds, and I knew how much it would make her smile. She broke my heart before I had a chance to give it to her. I still can’t look at it without thinking of her gorgeous blue eyes.”
