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    Design and Architecture

    The Museum of Broken Relationships

    The mementos of broken relationships usually sit in a dusty closet. So what happens when someone decides to collect them and display them to the public? Meet Alexis Hyde, director of the new Los Angeles Museum of Broken Relationships, on Hollywood Boulevard.

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    By Frances Anderton • May 31, 2016 • 1 min read

    The mementos of broken relationships usually sit in a dusty closet. So what happens when someone decides to collect them and display them to the public? Meet Alexis Hyde, director of the new Los Angeles Museum of Broken Relationships, on Hollywood Boulevard. She curates a space filled with the crowd-sourced totems of heartbreak, sprung from all sorts of relationships: romantic, familial or platonic.

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

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      Alexis Hyde

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Facebook Compassion, Broken Relationships and Lonely Cities
    1. 1:19Facebook Compassion
    2. 8:48The Museum of Broken RelationshipsYou’re reading this
    3. 19:53The Lonely City
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