Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry will talk to ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir on 6 December as the Nobel Week festivities begin in Stockholm, Sweden.

Today Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is launching a jewellery installation at Nobel Prize Museum. The collection, which consists of jewellery pieces cast in the shape of medicines, was produced by alumni of Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and is an effort to make the public aware that millions of people do not have access to vital medicines because these are too expensive.

What would the world be like without penicillin? What are good examples of discoveries that will decrease our climate impact? How do we help people who have become refugees? These are some of the questions highlighted in the new exhibition ‘For the Greatest Benefit to Humankind’, which opens at Nobel Prize Museum on 5 October.

Why is it so hard for us to accept certain truths? Can something be true to me and false to you? Why does fake news spread so easily, and why is it becoming more and more important to be critical about sources? Åsa Wikforss, professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University and a member of the Swedish Academy, answers these questions in a new Swedish-language Performance Lecture presented by Dramaten –the Royal Dramatic Theatre –and Nobel Prize Museum, and directed by Carolina Frände. The premiere will be on 8 November.

The new travelling exhibition ‘For the greatest benefit to humankind’ was inaugurated today, 11 September 2019 in Mohali, India. The world premiere is part of the Nobel Prize Series India 2019, a three-day programme that will also take place in Ludhiana and Delhi, highlighting issues related to education and learning. Nobel Laureates will give lectures and take part in roundtable discussions together with experts, teachers and students.

Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm’s Old Town has appointed a new Head of Exhibitions. Clara Åhlvik has long experience of working with exhibitions at a large number of museums and has organised many highly publicised exhibitions that have been displayed around Sweden.

This week a handwritten manuscript by Albert Einstein is being donated to the Nobel Prize Museum. It was published in December 1922 and was thus the first Einstein work published after he received the Nobel Prize.

Between 7 and 14 October, this year's Nobel Prizes will be announced. During the same period, the annual Nobel Prize Teacher Summit will also be organised in Stockholm. The theme of the 2019 international teacher conference will be climate change. During this full-day event, teachers from all over the world will discuss how they can work with this issue in their instruction. Nobel Laureates who helped develop the LED lamp and discover how freons damage the ozone layer will be on hand to inspire the Teacher Summit participants.    

NIBE, a leading global manufacturer of heat pumps and other solutions in sustainable energy, is becoming a new main partner of the Nobel Prize Museum. This collaboration will enable more students in Swedish schools to learn about the discoveries and achievements that have been rewarded with the Nobel Prize. One element of the partnership is that the Nobel Prize Museum will display exhibitions in Markaryd, southern Sweden, aimed at the schools. In conjunction with this, the Museum will also organise evening training courses for teachers in the surrounding region.

At a ceremony a book from Gabriela Mistral's private collection and three of her personal photographs were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum. Earlier this spring, the Museum also received a pipe that belonged to Pablo Neruda. These artefacts will enable Museum visitors to learn more about the two Chilean Nobel Laureates in Literature.