Museum Of Broken Relationship Analysis

In this essay, I select the Museum of Broken Relationship. After briefly introducing this museum and explaining its social value, I would like to focus on the unique features of this museum and explore the psychology of the contributors. The collection in the Museum of Broken Relationships consists of articles which represent someone’s love, which ended usually in a sad way. Beside the articles, area brief explanatory memo about his or her ended relationship, with the title and where the item came from. The founder of this unique museum were one artist couple, who made up their mind to break up, but were looking for a place they could put all the things used during their relationships. They thought that there might be others who felt
First of all, the way to collect the exhibits is different. All the articles in Museum of Broken Relationships, except the one provided by the founder, were used to be ordinary people’s private belongings. In a sense, everyone has a chance to join the management of the museum as one contributor. This museum perfectly succeeds in involving people not just as an audience but also as a voluntary cooperator thanks to the familiar concept of the items. Typically, museums gathered the articles mainly by purchasing or from donation. The donation is usually quite limited in culture, arts, history and a handful people or institutions can contribute things that worth being displayed because museums only deal with what is thought be as high cultural, political, or academic values. Nobody would dream of donating their paintings created during the art class in high school days to the
To begin with, I would like to demonstrate that hard broken relationship could leave a traumatic damage. According to the Greenberg (2011), a clinical health psychologist, handling the break up and managing the trauma are a little bit similar. She said that after experiencing the breakup, people remember the various thoughts over the ex-partner or the sense of loss when he or she faces anything that represents their relation, like places they would often hang out or their mutual friends, which is common with trauma. Considering such psychological reaction to the sad breakup, the donators’ behavior of sending their memento to the museum, not throwing away is fairly reasonable. They want to put the article, which connect the present’s mind to the bitter feelings in the past, out of sight, but at the same time, since they admit the additional symbolic value in it, they do not treat it