The story cards
Laughter and tears every second step.
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The Museum of Broken Relationships is Zagreb's most famous cultural export: two artists' idea at their own parting (2006) — where do finished love's objects go? — become a world museum gathering pieces and their stories from every continent: each ordinary thing (a toaster, a doll, an axe!) captioned with its true story in its anonymous owner's words — the reading swinging between laughter and tears every second step. It won Europe's most daring museum (2011) and toured the world, a branch in Los Angeles — but the original sits in a small baroque palace in the Upper Town: five rooms and one intense reading hour resembling no other museum on earth. It is the adults' and teenagers' finest stop (small children bore, not from content) — its café and shop (the memory eraser) the wry close — and for the willing: the donation box for your own story at the exit feeds the forever-circulating collection.
Laughter and tears every second step.
Donate your own object at the exit.
Ćirilometodska 2, 10000 Zagreb
The Upper Town (Gornji Grad)Gornji Grad is original Zagreb: the medieval hill town of lanes and two hundred 2 minutes walk4.6
The Meštrović AtelierIvan Meštrović's house and studio in Zagreb's Upper Town, where he lived and wor3 minutes walk4.9
The Orthodox Cathedral of the TransfigurationThe Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Zagreb, on Preradović Square in the city centr4 minutes walk4.6
Dolac MarketZagreb's central food market, on a raised terrace directly above the main square4 minutes walk4.4
Tkalciceva StreetTkalčićeva is Zagreb's street of cafes and restaurants: a narrow pedestrian run 5 minutes walk4.8Yes, with ease: the stories are human in kind (loss, longing, wit — partings from homelands and mothers among them, not lovers only) and the display refined without vulgarity — the rare bolder piece passes briefly. It is a museum of memory and loss more than romance — which is why it touches everyone.