Here's a place you probably didn't know you had to visit. It's the Museum of Broken Relationships - up on the hill in Zagreb. It won an award in 2011 as Europe's most innovative museum, and you'd have to say it deserves it just for the title. That helped it attract more than 100,000 visitors only six years later.
Artists Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić got together and dedicated a space to those personal situations that took a wrong turn. They had broken up after four years, and talked about what to do with some shared items - jokingly, at least at that point. But four years later, they decided to try to put together a museum. After a few successful exhibits, the museum opened in 2010. There are 3,500 objects on display, and a bunch more that have been sent in virtually. That's a lot of break-ups in one place.
The concept even grew a bit. There's a second museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Some members of our tourist group did drop in and found it all pretty interesting. (They didn't use the word "depressing," which is a good sign.) I know you want to see this.
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