Museum of Broken Relationships Zagreb (TICKETS) – Palace Kulmer
The Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum’s collection.
The Museum of Broken Relationships is a physical and virtual public space created to treasure and share your heartbreak stories and symbolic possessions. It is a museum about you, us, and the way we love and lose.
At its core, the Museum is an ever-growing collection of items, each a memento of a relationship past, accompanied by a personal, yet anonymous story of its contributor. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from grief and loss, the Museum offers the chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creativity – by contributing to its universal collection.
It is located in the Kulmer baroque palace in Upper Town, built in several stages. The western part was built in the 18th century (1760 and 1776) for the city senator and notary B. Krajačić. Already in 1797, Johann Either extended the building to Ćirilometodska, and the Kulmer family adapted the eastern wing for housing in 1837. In the last stage, the architect Aleksandar Seć designed the eastern and northern wings in 1897, shaping the Kulmer Palace into a unique architectural entity.
Museum of Broken Relationships is an original creative art project conceived by Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić in 2006. It has since taken thousands of people on an empathetic journey around the world, challenging our ideas about heritage. Its original permanent location was founded in Zagreb. In 2010 it won the EMYA Kenneth Hudson Award as the most innovative and daring museum project in Europe.
The Museum of Broken Relationships is described by its founders as an “art concept which proceeds from the (scientific) assumption that objects (in the broadest sense, i.e., matter as a whole) possess integrated fields—‘holograms’ of memories and emotions—and intends with its layout to create a space of ‘secure memory’ or ‘protected remembrance’ to preserve the material and nonmaterial heritage of broken relationships”.
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Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is situated on the slopes of Medvednica mountain, in the Carpathian Basin, and on the banks of the Sava river. Zagreb has a rich and diverse history, culture, and architecture that reflect its long and turbulent past.
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One of the most remarkable periods in Croatian art history is the Baroque, which lasted from the 17th to the late 18th century. During this time, Croatia was reunited with the parts of its territory that were occupied by the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, after centuries of fragmentation and division. This reunification not only brought political stability and economic prosperity but also stimulated a cultural revival and a flourishing of art in every segment.
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