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This past week, Ariana and I decided to head to the Museum of Broken Relationships. \u00a0For those who have never seen The Bachelor, or haven’t heard the little mentions of this quirky museum, the Museum of Broken Relationships holds submissions from people of relationships they’ve had that ended. \u00a0The museum itself doesn’t only hold mementos from romantic relationships between people, though that does make up most of the museum’s contents, but rather also includes familial relationships, relationships with a past self, and relationships with a dream that never lasted.<\/p>\n

Personally, I had first heard of the Museum of Broken Relationships from a coworker who had submitted an item. \u00a0As an artist, someone in his community mentioned that this museum was being made, so he figured he’d submit something: a tiny piece of paper an ex-girlfriend had given him while he worked on his art that read “Pay Attention to me.” \u00a0To see this in the museum in person was somewhat surreal, and I found myself pulling out my phone to snapchat a picture of the scrap of paper to all of my coworkers.<\/p>\n

As I walked around the museum, looking from artifact to artifact, I noticed lots of people on their phones, taking pictures of the artifacts they related to, or found funny, or just felt like documenting. \u00a0Some people snapchatted themselves at the museum, a sign of their pop culture relevance to signal to their friends. \u00a0Even Ariana and I snapchatted the Bachelor’s Last Rose, because we knew that our friends would find it cool.<\/p>\n

\"\"Around the museum, this idea of using social media as part of the museum experience was everywhere. \u00a0I could tell it was part of their money-making strategy, perhaps from my natural business mentality. \u00a0The more visitors use social media to promote the museum, the less paid marketing the museum has to do, and the more people that come to pay the fee to enter. \u00a0The museum listed their handles on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr on signs throughout the building. \u00a0Then, upstairs, they had little stories on cards about ended relationships that visitors had submitted. \u00a0At the bottom of each card, it listed “Instagram Handle:” so people could write theirs and maybe others would follow them. \u00a0To me, this removed the anonymity of the cards and the stories they held, but also oddly made the writers of the card be defined by their Instagrams. \u00a0If someone were to look them up, they would see their Instagram, an aesthetically-curated version of themselves. \u00a0I thought the inclusion of the Instagram Handle was an odd and fascinating choice.<\/p>\n

In this day and age, it is clear that museums rely on word of mouth and social media marketing to ensure attendance.<\/p>\n

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