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The Museum of Broken Relationships grew from a traveling exhibition revolving around the concept of failed relationships and their ruins. Unlike ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers a chance to overcome an emotional collapse through creation: by contributing to the Museum's collection.
Partnering with Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) and with the guidance of Professor Jane Bernstein, my class and I curated a temporary Museum exhibit in Pittsburgh. We collected objects of past relationships from Pittsburgh natives, and worked with the founders of the original Museum, Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić.
In addition to the exhibit, we detailed our journeys and plans in journals, photographs, and other forms of media. With all this material, we published a book to record our histories after the closing of the exhibit.
I helped design museum exhibition materials, book covers, and internal pages. I even published an essay detailing my experience as part of the project.