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Hangover Museum Opens in Croatia

Blackout nights come to light with the first public hangover museum.

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We’ve all woken up after a night out with memories we’d rather suppress, but this museum is memorializing hangovers indefinitely.

It’s 2020 now, and no one plans on going out without entertaining an impromptu photo shoot at the club.  However, what happens after the function is rarely documented in the same way. The creators of what they claim as “the first hangover museum in the world” are shifting that record with their Museum of Hangovers.  It recently opened in Zagreb, Croatia.

Essentially, the perspective of the exhibition is on what transpires between the club and finally calling it a night.  The escapades of these moments often result in waking up in strange places or with strange objects. Displayed in the museum are 25 real souvenirs from times such as these.

It’s a smaller museum, hosting only four themed rooms. They include a bedroom, a garden, a street, and a mirror room, all arranged and decorated to reflect the disorienting and diverting nature of the spaces we clumsily occupy before bed.  Stories about trying to return home decorate the walls, too. According to Konbini.com, one of these stories is dedicated to a man handing his father an ID to enter his own home. He believed it was a nightclub. 

The public is welcome to share their own drunk stories in hopes of getting them exhibited (Image via Museum of Hangovers)

There is already one major criticism of the museum, though.  The founders, Rino Dubokovic and Roberta Mikelic, created it as a source of entertainment, primarily.  It is something of an “ode to drunken shenanigans,” as stated in Smithsonian Magazine. For all that, the museum lacks a comprehensive look at the dangers of overzealous consumption of alcohol.  The nature of the museum can be construed as “making light of alcohol abuse”. However, Dubovic and Mikelic are going to extend their exhibition to include the less glorified elements of alcoholism and intoxication.

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