PHOTOS: The Museum of Broken Relationships

A unique exhibition space at the CentQuatre exhibition hall in Paris displays relics of sentimental disappointment.

They call it the city of romance. Even so, Paris recently hosted a new exhibition -- the Museum of Broken Relationships  at at the CentQuatre exhibition hall in the capital of France and has on display objects that testify to love gone awry.

What objects found their way to the exhibition? Find out!

A wedding ring is displayed at the Museum of Broken Relationships installed at the CentQuatre exhibition hall in Paris. This short-lived exhibition space, in association with the museum with the same name in Zagreb and will show relics of sentimental disappointment.

The founders describe the museum as 'An art concept which proceeds from the (scientific) assumption that objects (in the broadest sense, i.e., matter as a whole) possess integrated fields - 'holograms' of memories and emotions - and intends with its layout to create a space of 'secure memory' or 'protected remembrance' in order to preserve the material and nonmaterial heritage of broken relationships'.

The Museum of Broken Relationships has received the Kenneth Hudson Award that is given out by the European Museum Forum (or the EMF). The judging panel that gives out the award to 'a museum, person, project or group of people who have demonstrated the most unusual, daring and, perhaps, controversial achievement that challenges common perceptions of the role of museums in society' noted the 'importance of public quality and innovation as fundamental elements of a successful museum'.

Three years after their break-up, they eventually did carry out their seemingly bizarre idea and started by asking their friends to donate objects left behind from their break-ups. They opened it to public for the first time in 2006.