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Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the successful-openings dept.

Slashdot reader swellconvivialguy writes: A new museum in Helsingborg displays more than 70 failed products and objects, including the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Sony Betamax, Harley-Davidson perfume, and the Donald Trump board game. According to curator Samuel West, "none of the companies that I contacted wanted to cooperate. I approached quite a few innovation directors and asked them for examples of failure that they've learned from. I thought it would be easy to get them to collaborate but none of them -- zero -- choose to cooperate."
The curator urges people to accept failure -- "as an essential aspect of progress and innovation."

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  1. Sweden? by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dammit, I went to Switzerland

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    1. Re:Sweden? by quenda · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dammit, I went to Switzerland

      Oh well, go see Ayers Rock instead. It can't be more than a couple of hours train ride east.

  2. The museum of failure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's cataloging slashdotters sex lives i assume

  3. His main attraction should be Hillary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Losing twice for President, I'm sure she knows a lot about failure!!!

  4. Re:Will they exhibit the Swedish Immigration polic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    That exhibit is currently just a window that lets you look outside.

  5. How about by rossdee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Assange's condom

  6. Trump Wing by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 4, Funny

    And Trump University, and Trump Vodka, and Trump Steaks, and ...

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  7. The Trump Wing by Gussington · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hear they've set aside an entire wing just for Donald J Trump...

  8. Re:LIST OF EXHIBITS by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My love life should get an entire wing.

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  9. Re:Beta a failure? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Betamax was introduced in 1975, so that would mean that the tape must have been produced for at least eight years before any recorders. No wonder it failed