Add thelocalreport.in As A Trusted Source
one”museum Failure” will be in U.K. Later this year, some of the weirdest and most sinister products imaginable are revealed.
The roaming exhibition has already appeared in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Budapest, among other places, and is now coming to the UK.
“The main reason for opening a museum in the UK is that you Brits know exactly what the museum is about. I don’t need to explain, everyone in the UK understands it,” founder Dr. Samuel West told independent. “They understand failure, and most people can appreciate failure and laugh at it at the same time.”
The exhibition showcases a range of failed products and services from around the world, from chopped-up car models and discontinued snacks to digital disasters, medical mishaps and ideas left on the drawing board.
Some failed products that made it to other cities included Heinz Purple Ketchup, Google Glass smart glasses, a reformulated New Coke in 1985, the Nokia N-Gage and the 1999 Rejuvenique mask, which delivered a mild electric shock to the face to make the skin look younger.
Mr West explained that while the failed ideas and products displayed in the museum do elicit laughter for their absurdity, they also show how innovative progress can be made by learning from past mistakes.
“The purpose of the museum is to remove the stigma of failure and help people appreciate its true value for progress and innovation,” said Dr. West.
“What we call progress, technology, medicine, ideology, society… it’s all the result of a long process of trial and error. As a society, we have huge problems to solve, and we need to reevaluate our relationship to the failure to take the meaningful risks needed to explore and experiment with new ways of doing things.”
Other areas of the pop-up discuss darker failures, such as the use of the Orbitoclast lobotomy tool, which is hammered into the upper part of the eye socket and was once thought to help mentally ill patients.
The museum’s latest exhibition focuses on the failures of artificial intelligence (AI); understanding what went wrong so it can be developed more safely and responsibly in the future.
The exhibit includes items such as the AI-powered Kuma Bear plush toy, which was removed from shelves after it was found to contain artificial intelligence. Able to provide advice on BDSM sexual practices and where to find knives.
Regarding Britain’s failures, the museum discusses the Titanic, the Sinclair C5 tricycle, the 2002 NHS digital medical records system, and even Brexit.
this museum of failure It is currently on display in Paris until May 17, but is expected to show in the UK later this year, with no exact date or location confirmed yet.
Read more: The UK’s best museums to visit, from contemporary art to local history exhibitions