Museum of Failure arrives in Brooklyn

Paul Heymont 3/28/232:00 PM

The Museum of Failure, a traveling exhibition of products and ideas that must have looked good at least for a moment but weren't, has opened a two-month run at Brooklyn's Industry City complex.

Among the featured products were a Persil laundry detergent that turned out to destroy the clothes it was meant to wash, Rely Tampons that caused toxic shock and a 'hula chair,' a gyrating device designed to build abdominal muscles while sitting at a desk.

There are also magazine covers featuring entrepreneurs who later went to jail, and 'brand extension' products where a familiar name failed to work on different products (Colgate frozen pizza, anyone? Lime-ade Oreos?).

The exhibition first appeared in Sweden in 2017.

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