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…

Anna Sjöström Douagi is Acting CEO of the Nobel Foundation from 1 March 2024. Since last year she has had a role as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Nobel Foundation. The process appointing a new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation is ongoing and will be communicated later this spring. Most recently Anna…

On 5 March fact, fiction and the future of democracy will be discussed at the Nobel Prize Dialogue, the first ever to take place in Brussels. Democratic societies rely on fact-based world views and science, but also on narratives that can bring together large, diverse communities. At a time when democracies are straining to cope…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 7-14 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 2024 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE…

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…

Today is the beginning of the Nobel Week. This year’s laureates are meeting for the first time at the Nobel Prize Museum, where they will each hand over an artefact and sign a chair in the museum’s Bistro. At the same time, the Nobel Prize banquet chef and pastry chef will be introduced. This year’s…

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,…

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition tells the story about and her courageous fight for freedom and human rights in Iran. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has written some of the texts exclusively for the exhibition. The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition: WOMAN – LIVE – FREEDOM will be officially opened by the laureate’s family the…

This year’s divertissement at the Nobel Prize banquet on 10 December was inspired by Stockholm City Hall’s centenary celebrations and by all the music that has echoed between the walls of its Blue Hall over the past century. There will also be several other occasions during the Nobel Week to enjoy music, such as at…

The exhibition YOKO ONO – PEACE is POWER opens at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on 1 December. In the weeks before, the world-famous artist’s messages of peace will light up Norwegian cities. For the first time since 2005, the world leading artist and peace activist Yoko Ono, is exhibiting in Norway. YOKO ONO…

The Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, Vidar Helgesen, will become the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Assistant Director-General of UNESCO. He will take up his new position on 1 March 2024. The process of recruiting his successor has been initiated. “The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation and I…

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…

Migration is one of the major challenges that the world is grappling with, and how we think about future migration flows is an urgent topic of discussion. During this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre in Gothenburg, three Nobel Prize laureates will share their experiences of living…

The accreditation has opened for media representatives who wish to apply to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet in Stockholm and in Oslo on 10 December. 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…

This year’s Nobel diploma was revealed at an event arranged by the Nobel Peace Center Saturday. The peace prize laureate will receive an artwork by the famous Norwegian artist Håkon Bleken, showing a man and a woman embracing each other. Yesterday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to the human…

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by fungi. They are all around us and inside us, but they often remain invisible. A new exhibition opening tomorrow at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm showcases how both art and science explore fungi.  The exhibition, entitled Fungi – In Art and Science, juxtaposes design objects, works of…

The Nobel Foundation has decided that the 2023 Nobel Prize will amount to SEK 11 million per prize category. This represents an increase of SEK 1 million per prize category compared to the previous few years. At the end of 2022, the market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital was SEK 5,799 million.…

Nobel Peace Prize laureates and will visit Stockholm in late September. They will speak at an international conference for teachers and will participate in separate conversations at the Nobel Prize Museum. The theme of these conversations is the growing threats to freedom of expression and democracy and what can reverse this trend. Their visits will…