Nobel Prize

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition tells the story about and her courageous fight for freedom and human rights in Iran. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has written some of the texts exclusively for the exhibition. The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition: WOMAN – LIVE – FREEDOM will be officially opened by the laureate’s family the…

This year’s divertissement at the Nobel Prize banquet on 10 December was inspired by Stockholm City Hall’s centenary celebrations and by all the music that has echoed between the walls of its Blue Hall over the past century. There will also be several other occasions during the Nobel Week to enjoy music, such as at…

The exhibition YOKO ONO – PEACE is POWER opens at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on 1 December. In the weeks before, the world-famous artist’s messages of peace will light up Norwegian cities. For the first time since 2005, the world leading artist and peace activist Yoko Ono, is exhibiting in Norway. YOKO ONO…

The Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, Vidar Helgesen, will become the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO. He will take up his new position on 1 March 2024. The process of recruiting his successor has been initiated. “The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation and I…

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…

Migration is one of the major challenges that the world is grappling with, and how we think about future migration flows is an urgent topic of discussion. During this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg, three Nobel Prize laureates will share their experiences of living…

The accreditation has opened for media representatives who wish to apply to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet in Stockholm and in Oslo on 10 December. Since 1901, Nobel Prize laureates have received their diplomas and medals at ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo. The Nobel Day, 10 December, begins with the award ceremony…

This year’s Nobel diploma was revealed at an event arranged by the Nobel Peace Center Saturday. The peace prize laureate will receive an artwork by the famous Norwegian artist Håkon Bleken, showing a man and a woman embracing each other. Yesterday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to the human…

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…

The Nobel Foundation has decided that the 2023 Nobel Prize will amount to SEK 11 million per prize category. This represents an increase of SEK 1 million per prize category compared to the previous few years. At the end of 2022, the market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital was SEK 5,799 million.…