BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS

The Museum of Failure has opened – are you fed up with museums that show a continuous path to glory like some socialist republic? Take a walk on the failed side

Pan Up

In June this year the museum of failure opened in Helsingborg, Sweden; it is full of the gadgets we like to laugh at today with the benefit of hindsight. Most are there because the people who invested in them thought they were a good idea at the time; if anyone disagreed they didn’t do so loudly enough.

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