The Museum Remembers Failed Love
There are two churches nearby in the old part of Zagreb city. St. Mark's and St. Catherine's. An exceptional museum has sprung up on the way from one church to another in the Croatian capital. The museum remembers failed love. There are several restaurants on the roof of The Museum of Broken Relationships.
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There are two churches nearby in the old part of Zagreb city. St. Mark's and St. Catherine's. An exceptional museum has sprung up on the way from one church to another in the Croatian capital. The museum remembers failed love. There are several restaurants on the roof of The Museum of Broken Relationships. The restaurant's coffee has a special reputation among the locals. The bride and groom come to the two churches every Saturday of the week. The guests came to the wedding. The bride and groom promise to stay together in the coming days in the church. At that time, the guests relaxed on the roof of Broken Relationships and sipped a mug of coffee.Here the state of a relationship break-up can be seen very closely with one another. The Museum of Broken Relationships An artist couple from Croatia first thought of creating 'The Museum of Broken Relationships'. Film producer OlinkaVistika and sculptor DrazenGrubisch saw their four-year marriage come to an end and saw some things fall apart when the relationship broke up, none of which were taken away. They decided to start a collection with these which will remember the failed love of the people. When the museum's collection began in 2010, it became the first personally owned museum in Zagreb. Vistika said, ‘It’s a metaphorical place to keep abandoned or abandoned items.
Putting a mark here means the relationship was there and it mattered to you. ' The founders are collecting patterns of misfortune from people around the world. A rabbit stands in front of a leisure center near the desert in Tehran. A placard in his hand. The placard says, "The rabbit was supposed to travel the world, but he could not go far beyond Iran." The rooms at The Museum of Broken Relationships are decorated with seemingly mundane things. Beneath these simple things are written with a broken heart, some knots. Together, the museum can take visitors to the pinnacle of emptiness. Such as a dwarf doll sitting to decorate the garden. Underneath that doll is a story about how a couple's long 20-year relationship was severed by an angry conversation on a plane.
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Or the last checkbook of a couple, which is a testimony to the secret but the sensational conversation between the prostitute and the customer. Or the first love letter that was torn apart in Sarajevo, the twins who fell apart in a flash of war. There is a worn flag at the entrance, a little torn at the bottom. He gave a warm welcome to the guests. Besides, many things that are common in various gift shops have come here and become extraordinary. Inside, like a museum restaurant, there is an espresso machine for making coffee. The machine testifies to a couple's long 20 years of love. Below this machine is a note, 'I have made coffee for him on this espresso machine for a long time. She loved this coffee. She has loved me for a long time. He gave me the coffee machine.Then one day he didn't like the coffee anymore, the coffee from the espresso machine he gave me. So I sent it to the basement. I didn't want to see the machine anymore. But since then I have had to go to the basement every day. ' Or the story of a postcard. In the middle of infinity, two small people are lost in each other's eyes. And the girl's red dress is painted in the color of the painter's mind. The postcard note reads, 'I am a 60-year-old woman from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. I went to Zagreb in 1986 and the city is my favorite. I first heard about The Museum of Broken Relationships in a local newspaper. Knowing this made me happy and sad at the same time. The postcard was given to me by our neighbor's son through the bottom of the door a long time ago. We had a love affair for three years. According to Armenian tradition, his parents came home to ask for my hand. My parents rejected them, saying that their son was not worthy of me. They went back frustrated. That afternoon, their son drove off a steep embankment.
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This is how things from all over the world come here and reflect the different perspectives of the failed family ties of the past days. Vistika said, 'We have transformed the concept of a museum into a temple of historical things. Museums can be about me-you too. We have added a kind of democratic values here and used love as a means to know the world. Vistika has chosen the former palace of the Croatian abstract painter Count Kulmar as the ideal site for such a museum. Special funicular trains arrive here every morning. Besides, there are other cultural issues from the lower part of the city to the hills. More than one lakh people came here last year. Here is a unique feeling that will touch you. “It’s an intimate experience in public space,” Vistika said. And you won't find it anywhere else, you can say it's rare. 'Google map: click here
Writer: Sayka Arifin Orpita
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