Nobel Prize

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…

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…

This year’s Nobel Prize Concert brings together world-renowned conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and acclaimed violinist Julia Fischer, together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. On 8 December, works by Boccherini, Brahms and Ravel will be performed on the Konserthuset Stockholm stage. The audience can also hear a work by the exciting young composer Gabriella Smith. Finnish-born…

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…

Humans are facing existential challenges. On 24 September laureates and other experts will meet in Seoul, Korea to discuss how future generations can equip themselves to tackle these pressing questions – what do we need to know and how should we learn it to be able to build a better world? Students from high schools…

Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates are among the speakers at the annual Nobel Peace Conference in Oslo 31 August. Indigenous rights and the situation for human rights activists in Russia and Iran are on the agenda. For the third consecutive year, the Nobel Peace Center is arranging an international peace conference and festival about the…

The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation has appointed a new Chair. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President of Stockholm University, is assuming the position. Sven Nyman, MSc, has also been elected as a new member of the Board.  “It is gratifying that Astrid Söderbergh Widding has agreed to become our new chair. She has extensive…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amount­ed to SEK 5,799 m (6,103) at the end of 2022. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 5,515 m (5,720). This generated a return of -2.0 (+18.4) per cent during 2022. During the past five years, investment…

‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is returning with new episodes. This time out, listeners meet the class of 2022 Nobel Prize laureates including Morten Meldal, Carolyn Bertozzi and Svante Pääbo, who share tales from their lives, their careers, and their failures and successes.  In the first episode – launched today – host Adam Smith speaks to 2022 chemistry laureate…

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.…