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A unique exhibition where epic fails are celebrated!

Failed Products

Innovation

Unique Exhibit

COMING SOON TO FISHERMAN'S WHARF!

Hey San Francisco, get ready to experience the weird, the wacky, and the just plain wrong! Museum of Failure® will be taking over the second floor of the former Madame Tussauds Wax Museum site in April 2025.

Interact and experience over 150 failed products and innovations from Colgate’s infamous frozen lasagna to the hip-swivelling Hawaii Chair, and Microsoft, Apple, and Google’s biggest flops, our exhibit is a treasure trove of fascinating failures.

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THE MUSEUM OF FAILURE®

Making mistakes is a fact of life—and that’s not a bad thing.

The Museum of Failure® brings together over 159 products and services that were a total flop but also paved the way for other great inventions. Failure is the mother of success, after all!

Learning from Their Mistakes

Embracing failure and taking meaningful risks allows for real innovation and progress. With a unique insight into the risky business of innovation, the museum aims to inspire and stimulate productive discussion about learning through our blunders. Everyone falls, but what’s most important is knowing how to get back up!

Failure as an Inspiration

Discover a rare collection of products designed by the most famous companies in the world. Some may even ring a bell – from Apple to Heinz, the exhibition is a display of bizarre products that failed to connect with the public.

Discover the Museum of Failure: Where Flops Become Fascinating Stories

Ever wondered what happens when innovation goes awry? Join us on a fascinating journey through the Museum of Failure, where we showcase the most intriguing and hilarious failures in history.

CBS Evening News Shines a Light on Our Museum of Failure

This national recognition is a testament to the importance of embracing failure as a step towards innovation and success.

upcoming exhibitions

San Francisco, Fisherman‘s Wharf – 2025

Previous exhibitions

Budapest – 2024
Washington DC – 2023
New York City, USA – 2023
Calgary, Canada – 2022
Taipei, Taiwan – 2022
Minneapolis, Mall of America – 2021
Saint-Étienne, CitéduDesign – 2020
Paris, La Cité des Sciences – 2019
Shanghai (上海第一百货) – 2019
Helsingborg, Dunkers – 2018
Hollywood – 2018
Los Angeles, A+D Museum – 2018
Helsingborg, Kulturhotellet – 2017

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The Museum Of Failure Reviews

What people think about our Museum Of Failure exhibit

I have been a fan of this idea ever since I learned how Edison didn’t think that he ever failed at the light but rather found ways it didn’t work!

So awesome! Very well done.

Great flashbacks and crazy background stories. Love the way a lot of the failed ideas generated future projects…

It was awesome and very educational. I grew up with some of the inventions and had some of them.

It was a very compelling exhibit!

Fun to see failed products I had and/or knew about! Surprised at the number of products I'd never heard of before.

Great exhibit! Brought back a lot of memories growing up in the nineties and see some of these items come and go.

Very entertaining! Loved learning about these EPIC failures. Highly recommend!

Great museum with awesome information. Highly recommend it. I enjoyed it very much!