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February 2026

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The 2026 Nobel Prize announcements

2 February 2026

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 5-12 October. All prize announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. In-depth information about the prizes will be published at . The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2026 prize decisions as follows:  PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE Monday, 5 October,…

January 2026

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Statement from the Nobel Foundation

18 January 2026

One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who “have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,” and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize.…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

A home for the unique legacy of Alfred Nobel is taking shape

15 January 2026

Today, the Nobel Foundation presents the first design of the Nobel Center project – a public building for science, literature and peace. It will be an international symbol of knowledge, focusing on the Nobel Prize laureates’ stories and groundbreaking achievements. The building is designed by David Chipperfield Architects, and the project is made possible thanks…

December 2025

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Machado opened the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition

12 December 2025

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado did not make it to the Peace Prize Ceremony, but tonight she and her family was present at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo to open the exhibition about herself. “The exhibition captures the essence of our struggle”, a visibly moved Maria Corina Machado said as she conducted…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Nobel Prize banquet chefs and pastry chef 2025

5 December 2025

For the first time, the Nobel Prize banquet chef consists of a duo This year, chef duo Tommy Myllymäki and Pi Le will be in charge of the first and main course for the 1,300 guests in the Blue Hall on 10 December. They are joined by Frida Bäcke, who for the second year in…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

100 students to the Nobel Prize award ceremony 

5 December 2025

100 students get to experience the Nobel Prize award ceremony on 10 December One hundred secondary school students and teachers are now for the first time invited to the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Konserthuset Stockholm to see when the laureates are awarded their medals and diplomas. “We want young people to feel that science…

November 2025

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Newly composed work inspired by quantum physics

27 November 2025

Jacob Mühlrad’s newly composed work inspired by quantum physics performed at the Nobel Prize banquet With less than two weeks left until the Nobel Prize banquet, the Nobel Foundation now reveals the people behind this year’s divertissement in City Hall on 10 December. Jacob Mühlrad has composed and is in charge of the music. Artist…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2025: Democracy on the Brink

26 November 2025

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is expected to the Nobel Peace Center on 11 December to open the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition. It tells the story about her work for democracy in Venezuela and a democracy under threat globally. Every year, the Nobel Peace Center creates an exhibition about the latest Nobel Peace…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize laureates discuss health for all

19 November 2025

Access to affordable, high-quality healthcare is one of the most striking achievements of the last century. It reflects the steady advance of medicine and health policy through open, international collaboration. But across the world, success is uneven. This year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, on 9 December in Gothenburg, will explore some ways to achieve health for…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Object from Santiago Ramón y Cajal has been donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

11 November 2025

The Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906. Now, two unique objects by Cajal are donated to the Nobel Prize Museum: an original drawing and a wood engraving plate, both depicting neurons. Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s groundbreaking research and principles, such as the Neuron Doctrine,…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Week press programmes have now been published

5 November 2025

The press programmes for the Nobel Week in Oslo and Stockholm have now been published with many activities that media can attend. 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 for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize…

October 2025

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize laureates join dialogue in India

27 October 2025

On 3-5 November the Nobel Prize Dialogue will come to India for a special double event in Bengaluru and Mumbai. The dialogue, hosted in partnership with Tata Trusts, brings Nobel Prize laureates together with leading thinkers to explore how knowledge, creativity, and investment in young people can shape a more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable future.…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

The light art festival Nobel Week Lights is expanding

20 October 2025

The Nobel Week is for the sixth year in a row celebrated with the light art festival Nobel Week Lights, where light art inspired by the Nobel Prize lights up a dark Stockholm in the middle of winter. The festival area has this year been expanded with light installations in both Tensta and the city…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

The New Nobel Diploma Unveiled

11 October 2025

This year’s Nobel Diploma is an artwork signed the famous, Norwegian contemporary artist Sverre Bjertnæs. It was unveiled at the Nobel Peace Center Saturday, in the presence of the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes and the artist himself.  Yesterday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025…

September 2025

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Object from Mario Vargas Llosa has been donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

18 September 2025

In 2023, Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa was inducted into the French Academy (L’Académie française), becoming the first member in the institution’s history whose literary work was not written in French. His ceremonial attire from the Academy, known as l’habit vert, has now been donated to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm by Raúl…

August 2025

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

New exhibition raises questions about our understanding of war and peace

27 August 2025

A new, timely exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, explores how rhetoric and propaganda shape our perception of war and peace. This autumn’s major exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center presents artworks spanning three centuries, leaving visitors with an unsettling question: Has the world truly changed? “In a time marked by global unrest,…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Bengt Samuelsson’s daily planner donated to the Nobel Prize Museum

25 August 2025

A daily planner from 2006 and a pen that once belonged Swedish Nobel Prize laureate have recently been added to the Nobel Prize Museum. Ulf Larsson, a curator at the Nobel Prize Museum, received the gifts, which were handed over by Samuelsson’s widow, Karin Samuelsson. “She told me that Bengt preferred having a very small…

June 2025

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Alfred Nobel’s recovered patent documents now on display at the Nobel Prize Museum

24 June 2025

The recently recovered patent documents belonging to Alfred Nobel have been handed over to the Nobel Foundation and will be on public display at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm throughout the summer. The documents, discovered earlier this year in a summer cottage in Blekinge, include around twenty patents and applications from the 1860s and…