The Museum of Happiness has recently been inaugurated in Copenhagen, a path in which to dig into the maze of what makes us happy people.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himWhere could it open if not in one of the best cities to live in the world? Copenhagen, in the highly efficient Denmark, inaugurates the first Museum to the world dedicated to happiness, a path in which to begin to dig into the maze of what makes us happy and satisfied people.
Already in London, in 2016, there was a happy attempt to create an exhibition focused on happiness and then the exhibition, which lasted three days, attracted the curiosity of thousands of visitors. Now the Museum of Happiness of the Danish capital is a permanent project of the Copenhagen Happiness Institute and it is an interactive excursus focused on the history of happiness in its various facets, on the anatomy of smiles, the benefits of foods such as chocolate and the reasons for which Scandinavians are among the happiest people on earth.
On the other hand, for years Denmark has been designated as the "happiest country in the world”, Often in first place in the ranking of the happiest countries in the world drawn up by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (Sdsn).
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“We thought, why don't we create a place where people can experience happiness from different perspectives and offer them an exhibit where they can become a little wiser about some of the questions we're trying to solve?” The creator explains to CNN. and the director of the museum is Meik Wiking, a young scholar who is thought to be the foremost expert on happiness in Denmark and head of the Happiness Institute.
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Its goal is not only to delve into individual happiness, but also to "inform decision makers about the causes and effects of human happiness, make subjective well-being part of the public policy debate, and improve the overall quality of life for children. citizens from all over the world ".
Given the particular historical moment in which it was opened (and the choice is not accidental), strict anti-Covid-19 protocols have been devised, including a one-way access system and a limit of 50 guests.
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A good opportunity, in short, for when we can even go there, to make a very original tour in global happiness, showing how perceptions of it have changed over the course of history, as it appears in different regions of the world and why some countries seem to have more than others.
“We could be Danish or Mexican or American or Chinese, but we are first and foremost people,” concludes Wiking. And looking for the meaning of the most disparate happiness could help us to live better.
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Sources: Museum of Happiness / CNN
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