Museum of Failure
| Established | June 7, 2017 |
|---|---|
| Location |
Södergatan 15 Helsingborg, Sweden |
| Coordinates | 56°02′25″N 12°42′08″E / 56.04028°N 12.70222°ECoordinates: 56°02′25″N 12°42′08″E / 56.04028°N 12.70222°E |
| Type | Specialized museum |
| Curator | Samuel West |
| Website |
museumoffailure |
The Museum of Failure[1] is a collection of failed products and services. The museum showcases failures to provide visitors a learning experience about the important role of failure for innovation and to encourage organizations to become better at learning from failure. The permanent exhibition opened on June 7, 2017 and is located in Helsingborg, Sweden.[2] A pop-up version of the museum is on an international tour.
The growing collection consists of over seventy failed products and services from around the world. Every item provides insight into the risky business of innovation. Some examples of the items on display: Apple Newton, Bic for Her, Google Glass, N-Gage, lobotomy instruments, Harley-Davidsson Cologne, Kodak DC-40, Sony Betamax, Lego Fiber Optics, and Paolo Macchiarini's infamous plastic trachea.
The museum has received international attention for its unusual collection.[3][4][5][6]
The museum is the brainchild of psychologist and innovation researcher Samuel West. The concept of the museum was inspired by a 2016 visit to Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia.[7] West reportedly registered a domain name for his museum, and later realized he had misspelled the word "museum".[2] The physical exhibition is designed by Niklas Madsen.
The museum of partially funded by the Swedish Innovation Authority (Vinnova).[8]
References
- ↑ "About". Museumoffailure.se. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- 1 2 "Sweden's Museum of Failure highlights products that flopped". Washington Post. June 12, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ↑ "The Museum of Failure in Sweden argues that real innovation requires failure — Quartz". Qz.com. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ Vonberg, Judith (2017-04-06). "Museum showcases innovation failures". Edition.cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ "The Museum of Failure showcases — and celebrates — really terrible ideas - Home | As It Happens | CBC Radio". Cbc.ca. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ "Sweden to open 'Museum of Failure' showcasing flop products". Thelocal.se. 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ "Största flopparna: Segway, cashkort och plastcykel | SvD". Svd.se. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ "Museum of Failure". Vinnova.se. 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
Further reading
- Danner, J., & Coopersmith, M. (2015). The Other "F" Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work. John Wiley & Sons.
- Cannon, M. D., & Edmondson, A. C. (2005). Failing to learn and learning to fail (intelligently): How great organizations put failure to work to innovate and improve. Long Range Planning, 38(3), 299–319.
- Khanna, R., Guler, I., & Nerkar, A. (2016). Fail often, fail big, and fail fast? Learning from small failures and R&D performance in the pharmaceutical industry. Academy of Management Journal, 59(2), 436–459.
- What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team, New York Times, 28 February 2016.
- Frazier, M. L., Fainshmidt, S., Klinger, R. L., Pezeshkan, A., & Vracheva, V. (2017). Psychological safety: A meta‐analytic review and extension. Personnel Psychology, 70(1), 113–165.
- Agarwal, P., & Farndale, E. (2017). High‐performance work systems and creativity implementation: the role of psychological capital and psychological safety. Human Resource Management Journal.
- West, S., & Shiu, E. C. C. (2014). Play as a facilitator of organizational creativity. Creativity research: An inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research handbook (2014), 191–206.