The Museum of Broken Relationships

“There is properly no history, only biography” Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, painted on the wall in the Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb. Photo by author.

The Museum of Broken Relationships is dedicated to objects. Objects as symbols of love lost, and hearts broken.

What reminds you of your former lovers?

I visited this museum in Zagreb, Croatia, four years ago. It was on the list of tourist activities at the hostel, and at the moment, I wasn’t too far removed from the dissolution of my own college relationship. And so, with such…