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 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…

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.…

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…

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…

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 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,…

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 Nobel Peace Conference and Festival will gather Nobel Peace Prize laureates, nuclear experts, decision makers and activists in Oslo on Hiroshima Day 6 August 2025. The Nobel Peace Conference 2025 celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate ’s work for a world free of nuclear weapons. The same day, the world marks 80 years since the…

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…

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 market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 6,797 m (6,233) at the end of 2024. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 6,600 m (6,041). This generated a return of +11.6 (+10.7) per cent during 2024. During the past five years, investment capital…

The Peace Prize exhibition “A Message to Humanity” will be on board as the cruise ship Peace Boat sets sail from Japan today. The exhibition will visit 19 different countries during the ship’s voyage around the world. Yokohama, 23 April: A unique international collaboration is now bringing the Nobel Peace Center’s exhibition about last year’s peace…

During late March, two high-profile Nobel Peace Prize laureates visited Stockholm. Filipino journalist Maria Ressa has led the fight for press freedom in the Philippines and Leymah Gbowee’s peaceful protests helped end the second Liberian civil war in 2003. During their visit, they spoke to students, teachers and a broader Stockholm audience about courage, struggle and democracy. 

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…

How will our lives be lived in the future? This question and many more will be discussed from 8-10 of March. Several Nobel Prize laureates and other experts will explore how science and technology, combined with a better understanding of the world around us, might change our lives in the future. Students are invited to…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 6-13 October. All of the 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 2025 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR…