US EditionMuseum in Vancouver puts personal failures on display, encouraging people to move on
The exhibit features over 30 personal artifacts symbolizing failure and resilience, including a failed album and a wedding dress, encouraging growth and hope, curator Eyvan Collins said.
- On Jan. 24 the Museum of Personal Failure opened at Kingsgate Mall in Vancouver and runs Jan. 24 to Feb. 3, displaying artifacts submitted by the public exploring failure and hope.
- Eyvan Collins began the project after a breakup, putting up online posters last year and plastering 'Failures Wanted' posters at knee height, soon receiving emails from the public offering artifacts.
- Named contributors supplied items including a wedding dress over 30 years old, unsharpenable knife, Jamie Greenberg's six failed songs, and a rejection letter, as Collins said.
- Contributors say acceptance into the exhibit felt like a victory and spurred new art projects, with Michael Brooks highlighting how creative practice and queer and neurodivergent experiences found representation.
- Jamie Greenberg and others frame failure as a key ingredient in eventual success, and organizers say the project grew beyond expectations, drawing media coverage first published Jan. 25, 2026.
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Museum in Vancouver puts personal failures on display, encouraging people to move on
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Shattered dreams morph into triumph at Vancouver's Museum of Personal Failure
The Museum of Personal Failure, curated by Burnaby resident Eyvan Collins, showcases artifacts of failure including a wedding dress from a failed marriage, non-working knives and a can of spilled paint.
Museum in Vancouver puts personal failures on display, encouraging people to move on – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — A dead aloe plant, an old wedding dress that symbolized a failed marriage and a rejection letter for a job application are all exhibits that are part of a display of personal failure at a Vancouver mall. Eyvan Collins, curator of the Museum of Personal Failure, says he started putting up posters online last year, inviting people to submit items representing their failures as a way for him to cope with “big heartbreak” after two of hi…
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