About

The Manifesto

Every creative person has a graveyard.

Half-written novels. Abandoned apps. Sketches that were supposed to become paintings. Songs recorded at 2am that never got a second verse.

We hide these things. We feel guilty about them. We tell ourselves we’ll get back to them, knowing we probably won’t.

The Unfinished Museum is a home for all of it.

Not to fix. Not to finish. Just to honor the fact that you started. That for a moment, this thing mattered enough to begin.

Donate your unfinished work. Browse what others left behind. Leave a note if something moves you.

Nothing here is broken. It’s just not done yet.

Museum Etiquette

What belongs here

Anything you started with genuine creative intention — at any stage, in any medium. A napkin sketch counts. A half-built app counts. An idea you spent weeks thinking about but never began counts. There's no minimum level of “done.”

We ask two things: that the work is yours, and that the story is real.

What will be removed

Exhibits that disrespect the space — empty or nonsensical entries, hateful content, someone else's work claimed as your own, or anything that makes other donors feel unsafe sharing here.

A note on “unfinished”

We don't judge how done something is. Some things are 5% finished. Some are 95%. The interesting part isn't the percentage — it's why you stopped. That's what people come here to read.

Curated by

Shay Zhou

Built with

Cursor, Next.js, and Supabase.