A black and white group portrait of three people, including Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić. In the immediate foreground on the left, a man with short hair and a goatee looks toward the camera. In the center, a woman with long, dark hair and bangs smiles warmly, wearing a dark, patterned blouse. On the right, a man with short hair and a goatee stands with his arms crossed, wearing a dark zippered jacket over a light-colored t-shirt. The background is a bright, nearly white wall with some blurred documents visible.

11 When Relationships End: Stories from the Museum of Broken Relationships

What happens to the gifts, letters, and everyday objects that outlive a relationship? How do choices to keep, discard, or donate these once cherished objects reflect social values? And how does their meaning change as they move from private memory into public storytelling? In this Zethnopod episode we speak with Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, founders of the Museum of Broken Relationships, about how intimate objects become part of a public archive of love, loss, and memory. Together with anthropologist Adam Drazin, we explore what these items reveal about material culture, emotional attachment, and the shifting meanings of things.