The physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Jerome Friedman has donated two watercolours to the Nobel Prize Museum. The works are painted by Friedman himself and offer a glimpse of a lesser-known side of the laureate – his lifelong interest in painting. Jerome Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, together with Henry Kendall…

Within the Karolinska Institutet heritage collections, a rich assortment of historical materials can be found in the form of books, paintings, images and instruments – artefacts used in groundbreaking medical discoveries foundational to today’s research. Materials from these collections are now on display in the exhibition Cells, nerves, genes at the Nobel Prize Museum. The Nobel Prizes…

Since 2020, the light art festival Nobel Week Lights takes place in Stockholm during Nobel Week. Each year, international and local artists, designers and students are invited to create large-scale public light artworks inspired by the Nobel Prize. The festival has now been awarded the [d]arc awards for the 2025 edition of Nobel Week Lights.…

Emilija Škarnulytė is the recipient of Collide Stockholm, the Arts at CERN international residency award organised in collaboration with the Nobel Prize Museum. Following the international open call launched in November 2025, Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum are pleased to announce that Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė has been selected as the recipient…

In December, a photo competition took place during the annual light art festival Nobel Week Lights. Now the winner has been announced. Out of more than 700 entries and ten finalists, a clear winner emerged – Donato Chieppa, with his atmospheric photo of the artwork Royal Sky. “It feels amazing and very meaningful to me,”…

In March, chemistry laureate will come to Stockholm. He will participate in a public programme at the Nobel Prize Museum, give a lecture in front of students at the Royal Institute of Technology and be the keynote speaker at the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit, where teachers from all over the world gather to discuss global…

The Nobel Prize medal and diploma awarded to Tomas Tranströmer in 2011 have been donated to the Nobel Prize Museum. The gift highlights the legacy of one of the most celebrated poets of our time and will enhance the museum experience for visitors as well as serve as an entry point for telling the story…

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…