A book with a very special dedication has been brought to Stockholm from Minnesota. It is a copy of The Old Man and the Sea with a personal greeting by written in June 1961, just weeks before his death. Hemingway expert Curtis DeBerg came to Stockholm and the Nobel Prize Museum in January. A few…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The new exhibition highlights three of the crucial medical discoveries of the 20th century: insulin, polio vaccine and penicillin. Three new documentary films explore how researchers and health care professionals are building on the foundation laid by Nobel Prize laureates in medicine to prevent and treat diseases today. The exhibition opens on 16 May. Thethree…

Medicine laureate has donated a library card to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The card dates back to the 1970s and holds significant personal meaning for him as a symbol of science and knowledge.   The library card is from the Sunnyvale Public Library, where Andrew Fire grew up in the 1970s. “I consider this…

The Nobel Prize Museum is adding a fountain pen to its collection of artefacts from laureates. The pen belonged to author Ivo Andrić (1892–1975), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. At the museum in Stockholm to hand over the pen are representatives from the Belgrade City Museum, who have had this…

On 7 March, the exhibition Snow and Rain Shall Pass will open at the Nobel Prize Museum. A selection of Karin Alfredsson’s photographs as well as her short film Arctic Ocean – A Journey to the North Pole will be on display together with poems by Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in literature.…

When visitors got to be in the picture, it became better ‒ so much better that it won the Nobel Prize Museum’s photo contest from Nobel Week Lights. And the people who took the opportunity to visit the 2024 light festival made a record-breaking number of visits. Figures from research companies Ipsos and Exquiro show…

During the 2024 Nobel Week Lights Stockholm festival, you can walk through an 80-metre-long tunnel of light and sound, spin around in shining lotus flowers and watch yourself loom in a sea of flowing light. This year the façade of the City Hall will display a work that celebrates female Nobel Prize laureates. The festival’s…

This autumn, the Nobel Prize Museum will tackle a major topic in a small exhibition. THEN, NOW, LATER will explore how some Nobel Prize laureates in physics and literature have dealt with the subject of time and have debated its nature. Visitors will also be able to experience a video work in which the artist…

Early in June, Swedish Nobel Prize laureate turned 100 years old. His centenary birthday was celebrated with a seminar at the Nobel Prize Museum on 17 June. He also donated a scientific instrument that he and David Hubel used in their Nobel Prize-awarded research. On Monday, the Nobel Prize Museum added an ophthalmoscope to its…

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 Museum’s new exhibition “These things changed the world” displays a large selection from its collection of artefacts donated by Nobel Prize laureates. The exhibition features more than 250…

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…

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 José Saramago Foundation in late February. On 8 March, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition These things changed the world will be inaugurated, with over 250 objects donated by laureates…

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 scientists’ computers. Meanwhile…

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. On Wednesday, 13 December, the Nobel Prize Museum was visited by her two 17-year-old children, Ali and Kiana Rahmani, who had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in Oslo on the Nobel Day, 10 December. They donated four artefacts and…

Two of the 2023 Nobel Prize laureates in physics and chemistry will talk to ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen on 11 December during Nobel Week and simultaneously – through space and time – liaise with their fellow laureates Niels Bohr and Selma Lagerlöf. The live conversation will take place at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm,…

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…