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Visitors Laugh Away Troubles at the HaHaHouse Museum — VOA Learning English

Article · Language: English · Level: hard · Author: VOA Learning English · ≈ 3 min · 462 words

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Visitors Laugh Away Troubles at the HaHaHouse Museum

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A new museum of laughter in Croatia is offering to help people deal with the negativity of modern life.

Visitors to the HaHaHouse in the Croatian capital Zagreb walk into a little cloud of white smoke when they step inside. Its purpose is to blow away their worries before they climb into a "giant washing machine".

Then they move down a twisting slide into a space filled with little white balls where their trip to a happier place starts.

Forty-three-year-old Andrea Golubic is the museum’s creator. Golubic said she got the idea during the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, many people were feeling down, depressed and alone: "I realized that I had a mission -- to heal people with laughter."

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Lajla Veselica reported this story for Agence-France Press. Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English.

Source: learningenglish.voanews.com/a/visitors-laugh-away-troubles-at-the-hahahouse-muse

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