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Emo Gallerists Open Heart-Shaped Box

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While the first impulse upon being dumped may be to cut yourself while listening to the Smiths and shredding every memento of your departed soul mate, Croatian artists Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic have discovered a better way. In the aftermath of their own break-up, the erstwhile couple have founded the Museum of Broken Relationships as a final resting place for the detritus of soured love.

"Putting it in a museum would be a great solution," Grubisic explains to Radar. "The object is safe, you know where it is, and it is not haunting you with its presence."

Beginning in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, the exhibit has since traveled throughout the Balkans before landing in Berlin, where it currently appears. Along the way, the curators have collected more then 300 anonymous objects, from a wedding dress to an ax, that scorned citizens donated. According to Grubisic, those from Croatia's south tended to be more "merciless" towards their ex, while the Berlin additions to the show have so far been the most "violent."

The museum hopes to take the catharsis to France and the UK before arriving in the U.S. next year. Maybe you'll have moved on by then, though.

When asked if a jilted lover had ever given anything inappropriate to this Mecca of emo, Grubisic responded, "We had some people trying to donate pictures of their ex in, so to say, inappropriate scenes, but we do not take that in our museum. It was not intended to be a revenge thing but one of reconciliation." That's what Pornotube is for.

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