This year’s divertissement will be a swirling mix of music and dance. Three independent stories will celebrate the power of inspiration and the winding path that leads us humans to development and progress. Laleh will perform newly composed music together with dancers from BASE23 and solo musicians. The divertissement will also include newly composed music…

A new duo will be cooking for the laureates at the 2024 Nobel Prize banquet. At the Nobel Foundation’s press conference today, Jessie Sommarström and Frida Bäcke are talking about why it is important to choose the right ingredients and about the role of food for the climate and public health. Jessie Sommarström will be…

Epidemics, mental health, medical breakthroughs and innovative ways to improve our well-being. This year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, which will take place on 9 December in Stockholm, will explore many important aspects of global health. On site will be Nobel Prize laureates, Olympians, scientists and entrepreneurs. This year’s conference will feature three Nobel Prize laureates in…

The press programme for the Nobel Week in Oslo and Stockholm has now been published, and accreditation has been opened for media representatives who wish to apply to attend the award ceremony and banquet on 10 December. Since 1901, Nobel Laureates have received their diplomas and medals at ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo. The Nobel…

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…

Today, the Nobel Peace Center hosted an event where the new Nobel Peace Prize diploma was unveiled. The event included a lecture by Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes and a discussion with experts about the significance of the prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. Yesterday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel…

This year’s Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm on 8 December will bring together internationally celebrated soprano Malin Byström and the new conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka. Together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, they will perform a programme including the final scene from the opera Salome by Richard Strauss and Sergei…

The Nobel Peace Center gathered Nobel Peace Prize laureates, activists, decision makers and experts today in Oslo for the annual Nobel Peace Conference and Festival. Oslo, September 5, 2024: The Nobel Peace Conference Woman – Life – Freedom highlighted the dangerous rollbacks of women’s rights across the world and discussed best practices to counter them,…

This October, the Nobel Prize Dialogue makes its debut in Sydney, uniting leading thinkers from science and beyond, to explore and discuss the future of decision-making. The evening event at UNSW Sydney will feature engaging conversations between three Nobel Prize laureates: peace laureate and physics laureates and . Writer, composer and advocate for critical thinking…

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…

In the exhibition The Echo Chamber, opening at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on 19 September, the visitor is invited into the surreal world of Swedish star photographer Erik Johansson. The Echo Chamber is Swedish artist Erik Johansson’s first exhibition in Norway. The exhibition was a success at Fotografiska in Stockholm last year and…

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…

The Nobel Peace Center offers a special treat for visitors to the museum this summer: The children of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi will give special guided tours in the exhibition about their imprisoned mother. In December last year, Kiana and Ali Rahmani came to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf…

Citizens across the world will share their wishes for peace as Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree will be on display in five cities on five continents at the same time. In Oslo, people can take part in the activation outside the Norwegian Parliament on Friday 7 June. The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and Japan Institute…

Hanna Stjärne will be the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation. She will thus be tasked with strengthening the finances and position of the Nobel Prize in the long term and further developing the public activities surrounding the Nobel Prize in Sweden, Norway and globally. Hanna Stjärne, who is currently the Director General of…

Across four episodes we hear from Nobel Prize laureates about the spread of disinformation in their fields of work and the young people around the world combatting and exposing these distortions. In a new four-part series titled Whose Truth? Babita Sharma hears from Nobel Prize laureates, global analysts, activists, and changemakers to discuss global problems…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 6,233 m (5,799) at the end of 2023. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 6,041 m (5,515). This generated a return of +10.7 (−2.0) per cent during 2023. During the past five years, investment…

The Embassy of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden, One World Echoes in Oslo and the Nobel Peace Center cordially invite you to mark World Press Freedom Day at the Nobel Peace Center, Friday 3 May.  3 May is World Press Freedom Day; a day to celebrate the fundamental principle of press freedom…

In mid-April three Nobel Prize laureates will come to Rio and São Paulo. Medicine laureate will be joined by chemistry laureate and physics laureate . Together with other experts and students from 14 countries in the area they will discuss how science can benefit society. Science can inevitably help shape the future and tackle societal…

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…