The Museum of Broken Relationships Wants Your Bad Memories

Europe's Museum of Broken Relationships wants you to submit tokens of your affection, especially ones from lovers you no longer love. The organization, which calls itself an "art concept," has been touring for the past couple years, hitting Serbia, Croatia, and Slovakia and most recently having parked in Istanbul, Turkey through Valentine's Day.

But now they're expanding... and they want you to get dispose of the things you never want to see again... that is, until you see the Museum on tour in your city...

But why donate in the first place, you ask?

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

Better yet, the exhibits sound awesome and you want something good to come from a "collapsed" romantic history, don't you?

The museum has everything from romantic and touching letters to different gifts given to lovers like teddy bears and photos, but also such unusual examples as leg prosthesis donated by a war veteran who fell in love with his physiotherapist or a gall stone. [via]

A gall stone? Uh, maybe not. Of course, you never know what triggers bad memories -- whether it's one of those awful Spice Girls songs coming on the radio or finding out your new girlfriend also has a penis -- so who are we to judge? (Also the collection is entirely anonymous, so know will know that your lover left behind someone else's gigantic bra between your couch cushions.)

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