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The Museum of Broken Relationships
A large, imposing ax. Furniture smashed to pieces by said ax. A wooden leg. Gall stones. A wedding dress, and a Vespa scooter. This seemingly random collection of objects share one thing in common; they’re all exhibits in the recently-opened Museum of Broken Relationships in Berlin. All the items on display have been kindly donated by members of the public, and all of them represent feelings of loss, pain and, in the case of the ax and destroyed furniture, revenge for those that donated mementos of their ended relationships.
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