Two Croatians, who broke up after being together for four years, have started a Museum of Broken Relationships. Olinka Vistika, one half of the team, said they got the idea when they broke up.

"When we were deciding to split up, every time people do that, it's connected to something ugly, something awkward," she said on NPR's Weekend Edition. "So we didn't like that way of dealing with our own past, which was once really beautiful. We got this idea, maybe, it would be a great idea to have a museum where you could store your emotional heritage."

One exhibit, a Murano glass horse from Venice, Italy, was contributed by a woman from Maribor. She tells this lovely story of the day she and her husband visited Venice and he gave her this horse (shown at left). Though the marriage dissolved, she still has this sweet memory to hold on to.

BaltAmour reader dancing monkey tipped me on to this museum. "It almost seems like that would be the most ultimate, wonderful catharsis, to get over [the relationship]," she said. "It's the place for the things that are special and meaningful, yet not in your house, and you don't have to see them everyday."

I agree. I have a box of keepsakes from old relationships sitting in storage, such as love notes written on scrap pieces of card stock by my architecture-major girlfriend. Perhaps it would be good to share them in a public space.

What would you contribute to the Museum of Broken Relationships?

(Photo from brokenships.com)