Good morning and good bye – the exhibition tells about the happiness that doesn’t last
The Wedding dress that was never worn. Photos from the exhibition Sirpa Pääkkönen Good morning bunny, you look so sweet when you are sleeping that I want to come next to you. This message you can see written on a small piece of paper at the Museum of Broken Relationships in Helsinki City museum. That was the time when life was still happy. But what happened? “He used to write me these cute little notes on my birthday, when we were going through a rough patch or just to cheer me up on a regular day. We were good together, just not good enough”, writes the woman who got these notes after the break up. A sweet note. The Museum of Broken Relationships is conceptualized by two artist Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić in Croatia 2006 after their divorce. The museum has since then toured worldwide. The idea is to collect objects and stories which tell about broken relationships. In Finland the exhibition was opened in May. The objec...