A theatre performance is currently emerging at the Nobel Prize Museum. Actors Katarina Krogh and Fabian Hedlund, together with director Johan Bark and Nobel Prize Museum curator Carin Klaesson, are creating a completely new production based on texts from Nobel Prize laureates in literature. 30 September marks the premiere of the performance, which has emerged from a form of theatre lab.

A powerful, much-used chain, which has been employed in the struggle to draw attention to political prisons who are incarcerated in Russia, has been added to the Nobel Prize Museum’s collection. The Center for Civil Liberties ‒ one of three 2022 Nobel Peace Prize recipients ‒ donated this artefact, which will be on display at the museum this summer.

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by fungi. They are all around us and inside us, but they often remain invisible. In September, a new exhibition opening at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm will showcase how both art and science explore fungi. The visitor will be greeted by everything from Carsten Höller's sculptures of fly agaric mushrooms to a mushroom-themed dress created for Icelandic singer Björk.

A gift with a powerful story behind it has been presented to the Nobel Prize Museum. Nelly Sachs’ suitcase reminds us of Europe during World War II and the escape of a mother and daughter from Nazi terror in Berlin to Sweden. The contents of the suitcase were the only things they carried with them. The suitcase has now been gifted to the museum by Swedish writer Aris Fioretos, who has owned it for the past fifteen years.

During the four years that poet and 2020 literature laureate Louise Glück was working on ‘Averno’, she listened intensely to music by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. She has now donated the record, which is on display at the Nobel Prize Museum together with artefacts from other Nobel Prize laureates.

During the Nobel Week in December, medicine laureate Svante Pääbo donated a two-volume natural science encyclopaedia to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm's Old Town. He had received these books from his father Sune Bergström, who was awarded the Nobel Prize forty years earlier. Now the books are on display at the museum.

The Nobel Week Lights festival has been under way since 3 December to welcome Stockholm residents and visitors to join in celebrating the Nobel Week. It includes riding on illuminated seesaws in Charles XII Square and singing at the Stockholm Cathedral, which affects the artistic work on the façade. At the Royal Palace, spectators will be astounded by a luminous globe.

The 2022 Nobel Week Lights festival will take place from 3 to 11 December – with Nobel Prize laureates on hand in Stockholm for the first time. One innovation this year will be an artistic light installation on the Royal Palace, and visitors are being promised more interactivity. Nobel Prize-awarded LED technology will make the light installations energy-efficient, and the large City Hall installation will consume 40 per cent less energy thanks to new technology.

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition, Life Eternal, will open at Liljevalchs (the Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. The exhibition – which brings together science, art and cultural history – shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues of our era and offers hope for the future. At the same time an anthology, also called Life Eternal, will be released. It includes more than 30 essays that elaborate on the theme of the exhibition.

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition entitled “Life Eternal” will open at Liljevalchs (Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. A media preview tour will take place starting at 10.00 on 29 September at Liljevalchs.