This autumn, the Nobel Prize Museum will tackle a major topic in a small exhibition. THEN, NOW, LATER will explore how some Nobel Prize laureates in physics and literature have dealt with the subject of time and have debated its nature. Visitors will also be able to experience a video work in which the artist Marcus Coates follows the movement of a clock, second by second. The exhibition will open on 7 September.

Early in June, Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Torsten Wiesel turned 100 years old. His centenary birthday was celebrated with a seminar at the Nobel Prize Museum on 17 June. He also donated a scientific instrument that he and David Hubel used in their Nobel Prize-awarded research.

It is not uncommon to have a collection of keys from earlier periods of your life lying around in a cupboard. There is not always someone around who knows what they once were used for. Now just such a collection of keys has been donated to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. They all belonged to Swedish author Eyvind Johnson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature fifty years ago this year.

What significance can an artefact have, and what kind of story does it tell about the person who owned it? For the first time, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition “These things changed the world” displays a large selection from its collection of artefacts donated by Nobel Prize laureates. The exhibition features more than 250 artefacts and opens today, 8 March. 

A stone, a pair of glasses and a manuscript. These were some of the artefacts that were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by the José Saramago Foundation in late February. On 8 March, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition “These things changed the world” will be inaugurated, with over 250 objects donated by laureates over the years.

During the Nobel Week Lights festival in December 2023, a photo contest was held for the third time. Over 400 entries were received, and now a winner has been chosen. Lebanese-born photographer Mohamad Assaad won the contest with his image of an artistic light installation that was inspired by the activity inside scientists’ computers. Meanwhile an estimate shows that more and more people are visiting the light festival.

A park filled with fireflies, illuminated orbs you can kick into action and heartbeats that are transformed into light. These are some of the artworks presented during this year’s Nobel Week Lights. Today marks the release of the programme for the light festival, featuring seventeen light installations inspired by Nobel Prize laureates. The festival runs from 2-10 December.

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by fungi. They are all around us and inside us, but they often remain invisible. A new exhibition opening tomorrow at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm showcases how both art and science explore fungi. The exhibition, entitled Fungi – In Art and Science, juxtaposes design objects, works of art, fashion and current scientific research.

On 30 September, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition “Fungi – In Art and Science” will open. A media preview will take place on 29 September at 10.00 a.m.  at the museum. The exhibition explores the world of fungi through artworks, design objects, fashion and contemporary scientific research.

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Dmitry Muratov and Tawakkol Karman will visit Stockholm in late September. They will speak at an international conference for teachers and will participate in separate conversations at the Nobel Prize Museum. The theme of these conversations is the growing threats to freedom of expression and democracy and what can reverse this trend. Their visits will take place in conjunction with the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prizes in early October.