2024-03-08 — 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.
2024-03-08 — 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 Museumâs new exhibition âThese things changed the worldâ 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.Â
2024-03-01 — 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 JosĂ© Saramago Foundation in late February. On 8 March, the Nobel Prize Museumâs new exhibition âThese things changed the worldâ will be inaugurated, with over 250 objects donated by laureates over the years.
2024-01-30 — 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 scientistsâ computers. Meanwhile an estimate shows that more and more people are visiting the light festival.
2023-11-09 — 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 yearâs 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.
2023-09-29 — 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 â In Art and Science, juxtaposes design objects, works of art, fashion and current scientific research.
2023-09-19 — On 30 September, the Nobel Prize Museumâs new exhibition âFungi â In Art and Scienceâ will open. A media preview will take place on 29 September at 10.00 a.m. Â at the museum. The exhibition explores the world of fungi through artworks, design objects, fashion and contemporary scientific research.
2023-09-18 — 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 yearâs Nobel Prizes in early October.
2023-08-28 — 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.
2023-07-04 — 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 Museumâs collection. The Center for Civil Liberties â one of three 2022 Nobel Peace Prize recipients â donated this artefact, which will be on display at the museum this summer.
2023-06-28 — 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.
2023-04-27 — A gift with a powerful story behind it has been presented to the Nobel Prize Museum. Nelly Sachsâ 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.
2023-03-02 — During the four years that poet and 2020 literature laureate Louise GlĂŒck was working on âAvernoâ, 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.
2023-02-07 — During the Nobel Week in December, medicine laureate Svante PÀÀbo 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.
2022-12-14 — 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.
2022-11-10 — The 2022 Nobel Week Lights festival will take place from 3 to 11 December â 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.
2022-09-29 — On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museumâs new exhibition, Life Eternal, will open at Liljevalchs (the Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. The exhibition â which brings together science, art and cultural history â 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.
2022-09-12 — On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museumâs new exhibition entitled âLife Eternalâ 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.
2022-06-30 — On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museumâs new exhibition entitled 'Life Eternal' will open at Liljevalchs art gallery in Stockholm. The exhibition â which brings together science, art and cultural history â shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues of our era and offers hope for the future.
2022-06-15 — A tie, a book and a magnetic tape were artefacts that were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum when five Nobel Prize laureates paid a visit on Tuesday, 14 June. Those laureates who had not been to the museum before also took the opportunity to sign a chair for the museum's Bistro Nobel.
2022-05-20 — On Wednesday, 4 May, the Nobel Foundation announced that SEK 1.2 billion (more than USD 120 million) has been donated by the Erling-Persson Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to build the Nobel Center â a house for science, culture and dialogue to be located at Slussen in central Stockholm. This means that funding has been secured and the project will now move forward. At the same time, the Nobel Foundation unveiled its plans for the Center's public activities, which will inspire Stockholm residents, school children and tourists to participate in solving the challenges of the future and helping create a better world.
2022-04-29 — On Thursday, the Nobel Prize Museum was visited by 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, who is in Stockholm this week. During his visit, he donated his dictionary and took the opportunity to sign a chair in the museum's Bistro. He will be returning this evening Friday 29 April at 18.00 CET, for a conversation on the museum's stage.
2021-11-23 — On 24 November, the Nobel Prize Museum will be visited by the heads of the Spanish and Swedish royal families. They have been invited for a guided tour of a special exhibition that will display the drawings of Nobel Prize laureate Santiago RamĂłn y Cajal. Also on display will be works by contemporary visual artists who have been inspired by the artistically gifted scientist Cajal. The exhibition will be open to the public from 25 November to 4 December.
2021-11-11 — Twenty-five years ago, WisĆawa Szymborska received the Nobel Prize in Literature. On Thursday, the Nobel Prize Museum will receive three artefacts that provide a picture of the poet's work process and how she dealt with the attention that the Nobel Prize brought.
2021-10-04 — During the period 4 â 11 October, this yearâs Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. The Nobel Prize Museum is highlighting this through its Nobel Calling Stockholm programme â a week filled with activities at the museum as well as at theatres, higher education institutions and libraries. There will also be an open stage at Sergels torg featuring a broad cultural programme, and the voices of earlier laureates will be heard across the square.
2021-08-18 — The Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm's Old Town (Gamla stan), is reopening to visitors on 21 August. They can view the first major exhibition about the Nobel Prize banquet â focusing on the food, the clothing, the decorations and the laureates' speeches. This new exhibition takes you behind the scenes of this most festive of festivities.
2021-06-24 — In December 2020 the acclaimed Nobel Week Lights Stockholm festival took place in Stockholm. Sixteen light installations â many of them directly inspired by earlier Nobel Prizes â illuminated locations and buildings around the Swedish capital. It has now been decided that the festival will return this year.
2021-05-06 — The Board of Directors of the Nobel Prize Museum has gained two new members. Stein Olav Henrichsen is Director of Munchmuseet (MUNCH) in Oslo, Norway. Also newly elected to the board is Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary General of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.
2021-03-19 — There is a project of some cultural-historical value that has gone largely undetected until now. Together with Uppsala University and the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Nobel Prize Museum has been analysing the contents of forty-three old ceramic bottles that were used in Alfred Nobelâs laboratories.
2021-02-16 — What makes us listen to science? is a recorded conversation about how scientists can find new ways to convey important research findings and generate interest in their announcements. It features environmental researcher Johan Rockström, Nobel Laureate Sir Richard J. Roberts and Anna Sjöström Douagi, Vice President for Science and Programmes at Stockholmâs Nobel Prize Museum. A video of the conversation, conducted in English and with Swedish subtitles, will be available at Dramaten Play and the Nobel Prize Museum website starting on 23 February.
2020-11-18 — When December comes, we all need a little light in the darkness â and this year perhaps more than ever before. To bring some more light and hope to our lives, about fifteen places around Stockholm will be lit up for Nobel Week Lights Stockholm on 5-13 December as part of the 2020 Nobel Week. This celebration of lights weaves together art and technology in a playful new way to celebrate this yearâs Nobel Laureates.
2020-10-05 — In the coming days, this yearâs Nobel Laureates will be announced for their achievements in science, literature, peace and economics. The Nobel Prize Museum is celebrating the announcements with the programme Nobel Calling Stockholm and an outdoor cinema that has just opened on Sergels torg in downtown Stockholm.
2020-06-18 — On 2 July, the Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholmâs Old Town, will reopen under controlled conditions. New to the museum is a mini-exhibition about viruses, pandemics and the Nobel Prize. Visitors who cannot travel to the museum during the summer can also view the exhibition digitally.
2020-04-21 — On Earth Day, 22 April 2020, Greta Thunberg and Johan Rockström will meet for a digital conversation about courage, solidarity and opportunities in times of crisis streamed from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. The call will be broadcast live for a global audience. This year marks 50 years since Earth Day was first organised to highlight major environmental challenges in the world.
2020-04-15 — Just in time for Nobel Week in December 2020, Nobel Prize Museum is opening a new exhibition about the Nobel Banquet and the important role that shared meals play in bringing people together and fostering conversation. Nobel Day is celebrated by people everywhere these days, from preschools to elderly care facilities, and of course in countless living rooms where people tune in to watch the broadcast from their sofas at home. All of those who follow the festivities are now being invited to share their stories of what Nobel Day means for them.
2020-03-06 — The Erling-Persson Family Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation have together awarded a project grant of 84 million kronor (8 million euros) to the Nobel Prize Museum. The funding is to be used over a period of five years to further develop the museumâs efforts to educate the public and initiatives aimed at children and young people.
2020-02-07 — StadsgĂ„rdskajen next to Slussen is the site where the Nobel Center will be located, the City of Stockholm and the Nobel Foundation announced at a joint press conference today. With its broad public activities, the Nobel Center will be an important piece of the puzzle in developing Slussen into a lively meeting place.
2019-12-06 —
2019-11-27 — 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.
2019-11-05 — Today MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres/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.
2019-10-04 — 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 âFor the Greatest Benefit to Humankindâ, which opens at Nobel Prize Museum on 5 October.
2019-09-12 — 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? Ă sa 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 âthe Royal Dramatic Theatre âand Nobel Prize Museum, and directed by Carolina FrĂ€nde. The premiere will be on 8 November.
2019-09-11 — The new travelling exhibition âFor the greatest benefit to humankindâ 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.
2019-09-03 — Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholmâs Old Town has appointed a new Head of Exhibitions. Clara Ă hlvik 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.
2019-06-19 — 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.
2019-05-29 — 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. Â Â Â
2019-04-25 — 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.
2019-03-25 — 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.
2019-02-19 — Erika Lanner is taking over as Museum Director at the Nobel Prize Museum. In connection with the change of Director, the Museum in Stockholmâs Old Town is taking the opportunity to change its name. The former Nobel Museum is now becoming the Nobel Prize Museum.
2019-02-15 — What is happiness? What makes us happy? How happy can we be? Economics professor Micael Dahlen takes on this complex subject and shares his latest thoughts in a lecture elevated by the tools of theatre and directed by Jenny Andreasson. It will premiere on Lilla scenen (the Small Stage) of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm on May 9.
2018-12-05 — On January 15, the public is invited to a talk between the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Swedish TV journalist Jenny Strömstedt about the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr. During this event at the beautiful Södra Teatern, Eurovision Song Contest winner Loreen will perform. Jackson was invited by the Nobel Museum in connection with the exhibition about Dr King that is now on display at the Museum in Stockholmâs Old Town.
2018-10-15 — Today the Alliance parties together with the Green Party announced that they do not wish to have a Nobel Center on the Blasieholmen peninsula in central Stockholm. However, the question is what this really means. The Nobel Center project is currently being examined according to the process that the Nobel Foundation and the City of Stockholm had agreed on
2018-10-02 — When the 2018 Nobel Prizes are announced, this will attract great interest all over the world. What are the discoveries and achievements that are being rewarded this year? Many teachers share this fascination and would like to present news about the new Nobel Prizes in their classroom. This is now possible, thanks to a series of lesson materials from the Nobel Center.
2018-09-27 — STOCKHOLM, September 27, 2018 â Today, the Nobel Center and Stockholm Academic Forum (Staf), the peak collaborative body of the City of Stockholm and its 18 higher educations institutions, announced that they will launch a new, innovative forum to challenge scholars from different disciplines and universities to push disciplinary borders to reach new insights.
2018-09-27 — Starting today, all third-year students at upper secondary schools in Sweden can download a free copy of the acclaimed book Factfulness: Tio knep som hjĂ€lper dig att förstĂ„ vĂ€rlden (Factfulness: Ten Reasons Weâre Wrong About the World â and Why Things Are Better Than You Think) by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. The aim is to increased young adults' interest in science and facts.
2018-09-25 — The Nobel Center will be inviting the general public to Stockholm museums, libraries and theatres in order to celebrate and understand the new Nobel Prizes that will be announced during the first eight days of October.
2018-09-06 — Announcing the forthcoming opening of a new exhibition entitled A Right to Freedom â Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on September 29, 2018.
2018-06-15 — Fear is a prerequisite for survival. Fear can also prevent us from living. Where does fear come from? And how are we affected by it? These are some of the questions that psychology researcher Armita Golkar will examine in the third Performance Lecture in a series organised by Stockholmâs Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) and the Nobel Center. The director will be Alexander MĂžrk-Eidem. The premiere will take place on Dramatenâs Small Stage (Lilla scenen) on September 11.
2018-05-22 —
2018-03-02 — What lies in the darkness between the stars? Why does it become dark at night? How was the universe created, and what happened before the Big Bang?
2017-10-03 — When the 2017 Nobel Laureates are announced, this will attract great interest all over the world. What are the discoveries, literary works and peace efforts that are being rewarded this year? Many teachers share this fascination and would like to present news about the new Laureates in their classroom. Now it will be easier for them to do so, thanks to a newly developed set of educational materials from the Nobel Center.
2017-09-26 — The Nobel Teacher Summit is part of the Nobel Centerâs efforts to create highly topical activities and school programmes that will reach pupils and teachers around the world.
2017-09-25 — The exhibition Literary Rebellion â Images of Nobel Laureates in Literature is a clash of impressions. Beautiful black and white photographs entice visitors with a sense of serenity.
2017-04-21 — Ylva Lageson has been recruited to the role as Chief Executive Officer of Nobelhuset AB, the company entrusted with planning, constructing, owning, managing and improving the Nobel Center in Stockholm.
