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Literature laureate Nelly Sachs’ suitcase donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

2023-04-27 — 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.
Louise Glück donates Mahler record to Nobel Prize Museum

2023-03-02 — 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.
Nobel Prize Museum is displaying books from Svante Pääbo

2023-02-07 — 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.
Illuminated seesaws and a magnificent globe – the light festival is fully under way

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.
Nobel Prize laureates will be on hand during a festival that illuminates science and art

2022-11-10 — 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.
The Nobel Prize Museum's Life Eternal exhibition opens at Liljevalchs this weekend

2022-09-29 — 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.
Invitation to the media – Life Eternal

2022-09-12 — 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.
Nobel Prize Museum creates exhibition about eternal life at Liljevalchs

2022-06-30 — On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition entitled 'Life Eternal' will open at Liljevalchs 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.
Laureates visit the Nobel Prize Museum to donate artefacts and sign chairs

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.
New Nobel Center takes the next step

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 − 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.
Abdulrazak Gurnah donated his dictionary to the Nobel Prize Museum

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.
Art and science meet when the Nobel Prize Museum displays Cajal’s nerve cell drawings

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 Ramón 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.
Unique artefacts from poet Wisława Szymborska donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

2021-11-11 — Twenty-five years ago, Wisława 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.
Celebrating this year’s newly announced Nobel Prize laureates in Stockholm

2021-10-04 — During the period 4 – 11 October, this year’s Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. The Nobel Prize Museum is highlighting this through its Nobel Calling Stockholm programme – 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.
Nobel Prize Museum reopening with an exhibition about the banquet

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 – 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.
Acclaimed Nobel Week Lights festival will return in December

2021-06-24 — In December 2020 the acclaimed Nobel Week Lights Stockholm festival took place in Stockholm. Sixteen light installations – many of them directly inspired by earlier Nobel Prizes – illuminated locations and buildings around the Swedish capital. It has now been decided that the festival will return this year.
Munchmuseet and Medicine Prize committee provide new Nobel Prize Museum board members

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.
Alfred Nobel’s old bottles

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 Nobel’s laboratories.
Conversation about the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and scientific communication is released

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 Stockholm’s 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.
Stockholm launches a new celebration of lights during Nobel Week

2020-11-18 — When December comes, we all need a little light in the darkness – 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 year’s Nobel Laureates.
This year’s Nobel Laureates are being celebrated with an outdoor cinema on Sergels torg

2020-10-05 — In the coming days, this year’s 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.
The Nobel Prize Museum is soon opening its doors again

2020-06-18 — On 2 July, the Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s 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.
Sustainable courage: a live conversation between Greta Thunberg and Johan Rockström from the Nobel Prize Museum

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.
Nobel Prize Museum wants to hear your stories about how you celebrate Nobel Day

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.
Grant to Nobel Prize Museum funds further investment in young people

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 museum’s efforts to educate the public and initiatives aimed at children and young people.
Nobel Center to be built at Slussen

2020-02-07 — Stadsgårdskajen 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.
Nobel Week in Stockholm 2019

2019-12-06 —
Nobel Laureates call to Space Station

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.
Luxurious jewellery highlights everyone’s right to life-saving medicines

2019-11-05 — 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.
Nobel Prize-awarded achievements are showcased in new exhibition

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 ‘For the Greatest Benefit to Humankind’, which opens at Nobel Prize Museum on 5 October.
Philosophy professor Åsa Wikforss to give Performance Lecture on truth

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? 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.
World premiere of exhibition demonstrating the contributions of Nobel Laureates

2019-09-11 — 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.
Clara Åhlvik new Head of Exhibitions at Nobel Prize Museum

2019-09-03 — 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.
Handwritten manuscript from Albert Einstein donated to Nobel Prize Museum

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.
Teachers to discuss climate change with Nobel Laureates and top scientists

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.
Nobel Prize Museum and NIBE begin a multi-year partnership

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.
Artefacts from Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda presented to the Nobel Prize Museum

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.
Erika Lanner appointed Director of Nobel Prize Museum

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 Stockholm’s Old Town is taking the opportunity to change its name. The former Nobel Museum is now becoming the Nobel Prize Museum.
Economics professor Micael Dahlen to give Performance Lecture on happiness

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.
Jesse Jackson visiting Stockholm in January

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 Stockholm’s Old Town.
Statement of the Nobel Foundation about the Alliance-Green Party agreement on the Nobel Center

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
“Nobel Prize Lessons” bring the 2018 Nobel Prize into the classroom

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.
The Nobel Center and Stockholm Academic Forum Unite to Challenge Academic Borders

2018-09-27 — STOCKHOLM, September 27, 2018 — 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.
Now all third-year Swedish upper secondary students can download Factfulness free of charge

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 hjälper dig att förstå världen (Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – 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.
Three Nobel Laureates visiting Stockholm in October

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.
Nobel Museum to open new exhibition about Martin Luther King

2018-09-06 — Announcing the forthcoming opening of a new exhibition entitled A Right to Freedom – Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on September 29, 2018.
Psychology researcher Armita Golkar to give a Performance Lecture about our fears

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 Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) and the Nobel Center. The director will be Alexander Mørk-Eidem. The premiere will take place on Dramaten’s Small Stage (Lilla scenen) on September 11.
Nobel Center comments on the decision made by the Land and Environment Court

2018-05-22 —
Physicist Ulf Danielsson to give a Performance Lecture on the universe at the Royal Dramatic Theatre

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?
“Nobel Prize Lessons” bring the 2017 Laureates into the classroom

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.
New international conference highlights the role of teachers at a time when science and facts are being questioned

2017-09-26 — The Nobel Teacher Summit is part of the Nobel Center’s efforts to create highly topical activities and school programmes that will reach pupils and teachers around the world.
Literary Rebellion – what we prefer not to see

2017-09-25 — The exhibition Literary Rebellion – Images of Nobel Laureates in Literature is a clash of impressions. Beautiful black and white photographs entice visitors with a sense of serenity.
Ylva Lageson appointed new CEO of Nobelhuset AB

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.

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Literature laureate Nelly Sachs’ suitcase donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

Louise Glück donates Mahler record to Nobel Prize Museum

Nobel Prize Museum is displaying books from Svante Pääbo

Illuminated seesaws and a magnificent globe – the light festival is fully under way

Nobel Prize laureates will be on hand during a festival that illuminates science and art

The Nobel Prize Museum's Life Eternal exhibition opens at Liljevalchs this weekend

Invitation to the media – Life Eternal

Nobel Prize Museum creates exhibition about eternal life at Liljevalchs

Laureates visit the Nobel Prize Museum to donate artefacts and sign chairs

New Nobel Center takes the next step

Abdulrazak Gurnah donated his dictionary to the Nobel Prize Museum

Art and science meet when the Nobel Prize Museum displays Cajal’s nerve cell drawings

Unique artefacts from poet Wisława Szymborska donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

Celebrating this year’s newly announced Nobel Prize laureates in Stockholm

Nobel Prize Museum reopening with an exhibition about the banquet

Acclaimed Nobel Week Lights festival will return in December

Munchmuseet and Medicine Prize committee provide new Nobel Prize Museum board members

Alfred Nobel’s old bottles

Conversation about the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and scientific communication is released

Stockholm launches a new celebration of lights during Nobel Week

This year’s Nobel Laureates are being celebrated with an outdoor cinema on Sergels torg

The Nobel Prize Museum is soon opening its doors again

Sustainable courage: a live conversation between Greta Thunberg and Johan Rockström from the Nobel Prize Museum

Nobel Prize Museum wants to hear your stories about how you celebrate Nobel Day

Grant to Nobel Prize Museum funds further investment in young people

Nobel Center to be built at Slussen

Nobel Week in Stockholm 2019

Nobel Laureates call to Space Station

Luxurious jewellery highlights everyone’s right to life-saving medicines

Nobel Prize-awarded achievements are showcased in new exhibition

Philosophy professor Åsa Wikforss to give Performance Lecture on truth

World premiere of exhibition demonstrating the contributions of Nobel Laureates

Clara Åhlvik new Head of Exhibitions at Nobel Prize Museum

Handwritten manuscript from Albert Einstein donated to Nobel Prize Museum

Teachers to discuss climate change with Nobel Laureates and top scientists

Nobel Prize Museum and NIBE begin a multi-year partnership

Artefacts from Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda presented to the Nobel Prize Museum

Erika Lanner appointed Director of Nobel Prize Museum

Economics professor Micael Dahlen to give Performance Lecture on happiness

Jesse Jackson visiting Stockholm in January

Statement of the Nobel Foundation about the Alliance-Green Party agreement on the Nobel Center

“Nobel Prize Lessons” bring the 2018 Nobel Prize into the classroom

The Nobel Center and Stockholm Academic Forum Unite to Challenge Academic Borders

Now all third-year Swedish upper secondary students can download Factfulness free of charge

Three Nobel Laureates visiting Stockholm in October

Nobel Museum to open new exhibition about Martin Luther King

Psychology researcher Armita Golkar to give a Performance Lecture about our fears

Nobel Center comments on the decision made by the Land and Environment Court

Physicist Ulf Danielsson to give a Performance Lecture on the universe at the Royal Dramatic Theatre

“Nobel Prize Lessons” bring the 2017 Laureates into the classroom

New international conference highlights the role of teachers at a time when science and facts are being questioned

Literary Rebellion – what we prefer not to see

Ylva Lageson appointed new CEO of Nobelhuset AB

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