Happy Place 2022

Overview

Immersive and Instagrammable art has been all the rage in Australia for a few years now. One of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms is heading to Adelaide this year, Sugar Republic's "dessert museum" keeps popping up, both multi-sensory playground Imaginaria and Van Gogh Alive toured the country in 2021, and Melbourne now has its own permanent digital art museum. And, after first hitting our shores in Sydney in 2020, Happy Place also jumped back on the must-photograph list. It made its way to Melbourne last year, too — and, after shutting temporarily due to COVID-19 concerns, it's now reopening for a second run.

Dubbed the "world's most Instagrammable exhibit", the multi-room installation had already travelled across the US and Canada before its first Aussie stop, Happy Place will reopen at Crown Melbourne on Friday, February 11 — and is selling tickets until late March at present.

Once inside the exhibition, you'll find many OTT rooms to explore, including a rubber ducky bathtub room, a cookie room that actually smells like freshly baked cookies, a room filled with 40,000 golden handmade flowers and a giant rainbow with a golden ball pit (no leprechauns though, sorry). If that doesn't have you reaching for your smartphone, there's also a mind-bending upside-down room and the "world's largest indoor confetti dome".

A visit will cost adults $29.99, with the installation open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays — from 3–9pm on Fridays, 9am–6pm on Saturdays and 9am–6.30pm on Sundays.

Updated: March 18