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Healing power of laughter was the spark for museum that’s filled with it

Sumo fights in fat suits, distorted karaoke and choir of rubber chickens among attractions at museum that plays on laughter’s healing power

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Andrea Golubic inside a pool full of small white balls at the HaHaHouse museum of laughter, which she founded in central Zagreb, Croatia. Photo: AFP

A new museum of laughter is offering to put people through the spinner to wash away the negativity of modern life.

Visitors to the HaHaHouse in the Croatian capital Zagreb are blasted with a puff of white smoke once they step inside to blow away their worries before climbing into a “giant washing machine”.

The “centrifuge of life” then whips them away, Willy Wonka-style, down a twisting slide into a pool filled with little white balls where their journey to a happier place starts.

Its creator, Andrea Golubic, said she had the idea for the museum during the Covid-19 pandemic when many were feeling down, depressed and isolated.

Museum founder Andrea Golubic (left) in the lobby of the HaHaHouse museum of laughter, in central Zagreb, Croatia. Photo: AFP
Museum founder Andrea Golubic (left) in the lobby of the HaHaHouse museum of laughter, in central Zagreb, Croatia. Photo: AFP
“I realised that I had a mission – to heal people with laughter,” added the upbeat 43-year-old.
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