Museum of Broken Relationship 失戀博物館
http://new.brokenships.com/en
贏得Kenneth Hudson Award 2011 最新穎博物館。這個博物館展出的，是全世界的人捐出的失戀物品，付上他們旳故事，訴說出這件物品所包含的失戀故事。
有感動的，有激動的，有含蓄的，有無奈的。
以下兩個是令我印象最深刻的。
An Ex Axe
1995
Berlin, Germany
She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to learn to let people in more. A few months after she moved in, I was offered to travel to the US. She could not come along. At the airport we said goodbye in tears, and she was assuring me she could not survive three weeks without me. I returned after three weeks, and she said: “I fell in love with someone else. I have known her for just 4 days, but I know that she can give me everything that you cannot.”
I was banal and asked about her plans regarding our life together. The next day she still had no answer, so I kicked her out. She immediately went on holiday with her new girlfriend while her furniture stayed with me. Not knowing what to do with my anger, I finally bought this axe at Karstadt to blow off steam and to give her at least a small feeling of loss – which she obviously did not have after our break-up.
In the 14 days of her holiday, every day I axed one piece of her furniture. I kept the remains there, as an expression of my inner condition. The more her room filled with chopped furniture acquiring the look of my soul, the better I felt. Two weeks after she left, she came back for the furniture. It was neatly arranged into small heaps and fragments of wood. She took that trash and left my apartment for good. The axe was promoted to a therapy instrument.
A Shaving Kit
1987-1996
Zagreb, Croatia
She bought me this shaving kit for my birthday. I haven't used it for quite some time but I kept it as an memory of her.
Our love was passionate and we tried to break up a few times. She was 17 when we met. I was 27, married, with 3 children. We broke up after 10 years, but the love on my side is still as strong as it was back then. In the meantime she got married and had one daughter. I hope she doesn't love me anymore. I hope she doesn't know she was the ONLY person I ever loved.
雖然博物館容許拍攝，可是我還是收起了相機，為了讓自己更能用個多小時去用心了解這裡的每一個故事，除了上面兩個故事，因為太深刻了，希望能和別人分享。當時人只是簡簡單單用了數百字講述了該段感情，也許已是多年後的事，也許他們已經放下了，但用心看，還是會被每隻字所感動，因為入面全是當時他們所以付出過的感情。能公開讓所有人看見，是懷念的一種方法。
有一個人提及過 "When you pass by a strange museum, seeing a strange exhibit, will you recognise this strangest gift you gave me?" 也許每一個捐出展品的人，都會想過也許有一日，故事的另一主角會偶而踏入這間博物館，看到似曾相識的物品，繼而想起曾經的另一個他。
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