The Museum of Brexit, the long-in-gestation tourist attraction celebrating Britain\u2019s departure from the EU, is still no closer to opening its doors despite the permanent tribute to the \u201cstruggle for the United Kingdom\u2019s independence\u201d first being announced in 2017.<\/p>\n
But Brexit is finally about to be marked in a UK exhibition \u2013 albeit it in the Museum of Failure, a travelling show dedicated entirely to missteps and aborted ambitions, where it will sit aside such notable British flops as the Titanic, Sinclair C5, the NHS\u2019s national IT programme, Amstrad and The Body Shop.<\/p>\n
Its founder, Dr Samuel West, told the Guardian: \u201cI want to reframe failure and show it is a universal and necessary part of innovation and learning.The museum\u2019s message is that we need to take bold meaningful risks to solve the largest problems of our times, environmental, social, economical.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we continue to glorify success and stigmatise failure we will not be able to experiment with and explore the solutions that we need.\u201d Perhaps Keir Starmer should give it a visit when it reaches its yet-to-be-confirmed British location next year?<\/p>\n
It follows memorabilia from anti-Brexit protests featured in The Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, with objects from County Louth featuring prominently. These include protest placards used at the official Border Communities Against Brexit demonstration at Carrickcarnon, on the Dundalk\/Newry border, in January 2019, during which a mock eight-foot wall and army watchtower were built to make \u201ca stand against Brexit, against borders, against division\u201d.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the official Museum of Brexit continues its sterling work. Its most recent filings with the Charity Commission, for the year ending March 2025, showed a total income for the year of \u00a335,136 and expenditure of \u00a38,205.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Its official website\u2019s list of supporters still include the former chancellor Nigel Lawson and the businessman and economist John Mills, neither of whom is presumably much involved on a day-to-day basis, having died in April 2023 and April 2025 respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Museum of Brexit, the long-in-gestation tourist attraction celebrating Britain\u2019s departure from the EU, is still no closer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-660551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803661669450097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}