The Happiness Museum Copenhagen, also known as Lykkemuseet, is a fascinating little museum dedicated to exploring the big things in life: happiness and well-being.

The museum was officially opened in July 2020 by the Happiness Research Institute, an organization devoted to the study and science of happiness. Despite a small 240-square-meter space, the center uses interactive experiments, exhibitions, and questionnaires.

The museum features eight rooms dedicated to different theories on the nature of happiness. In one display, guests are asked to choose between an “experience machine” that provides users with infinite, albeit illusory, pleasure and the real world, which involves pain and suffering. Other exhibits include a room of maps identifying the world’s happiest and unhappiest countries, a happiness lab, an overview of the history of happiness, and an exploration of why Denmark and other Nordic countries consistently rank among the world’s happiest.

In recent years, organizations like the Happiness Research Institute have worked to measure happiness more systematically. The independent think tank draws on quantitative data including GDP, unemployment, and interest rates, as well as more subjective measures like life satisfaction and emotion, to determine overall well-being in specific countries.

Other happiness metrics, such as the World Happiness Report, rely on the Gallup World Poll. The survey added a new set of parameters, asking participants how social, urban, and national environments impacted their quality of life.

According to the Internet