Finally, a place where my work might actually be appreciated.
A new museum just opened in Vancouver, British Columbia called the “Museum of Personal FAILURE.” It’s a pop-up for now, not permanent. (So, fittingly, it’s destined to fail.)
The person behind it is Eyvan Collins. (AY-vin) They came up with the idea after a recent break-up, so, a failed relationship, and put posters up around Vancouver with the headline, “Failures Wanted.”
So, what’s in the museum? Featured items include a dead plant, a divorced woman’s wedding dress, failed art projects, an entire wall of rejected job applications, and a producer’s album that never went anywhere.
Each one has a write-up next to it that explains the backstory.
One guy just wrote a long list of his biggest fails in life, and that made the cut. He told a reporter that having his list of failures accepted into the museum felt like “a success” in a weird way.
Eyvan says the point is to see “what constitutes failure to an individual, and what that looks like in material form.” But it’s also just a celebration of the fact that failure is okay. Everyone fails. It’s the only way you learn and grow.
What personal failure would YOU highlight if you were submitting something to the museum?
(Vancouver Is Awesome / UPI / CTV News)
