Have you ever imagined what the Palace of Wrath might look like? What can hide in its dark corners and what crawls along its long corridors?

Nearly four years ago—an era we will remember as pre-coronavirus—my kids and I visited the Museum of Emotions, the only museum in the world dedicated to emotions. Somehow, my e-mail got a newsletter from the museum, which at the time was hosting an interactive exhibition of anger. For almost two hours, all of us, during classes, discussions, educational games, thought, reflected, confessed, sometimes got angry and often laughed. It was an unprecedented journey for all of us into the unknown world of emotions, organized with respect and experience, which left no wounds, but inspired exciting creativity.

A few days ago, another email arrived in the inbox, calling for the subject “Let’s Save the Museum of Emotions.” Unfortunately, the museum can no longer organize exhibitions, visits, workshops and educational programs. During the pandemic, he was forced to suspend his work after 14 years. Its interactive nature and the nature of the activity, requiring the participation of the senses through movement, contact, touch, could not be carried out in conditions of social distancing. Since then, he could no longer function.

With zero income as of March 2020, his team cannot continue to support their work and the museum is facing closure. “With the costs accumulated over two and a half years of the pandemic, combined with zero income, the non-profit nature of the organization and the inability of the state to adequately cover all businesses that have suffered losses, it has reached a dead end. With the sponsorship of major organizations and institutions, but no response, we are making one last attempt to revive the Museum of Emotions after the impact of the pandemic,” the museum notes. As a last resort, they launched an online campaign to raise money through donations that ends after 38 days. “The road has now led us in search of generous elves, kind-hearted giants and other creatures who consider the work of the Museum of the Senses worthy of survival,” they note. “Will you be one of those heroes in his fairy tale?”