During the four years that poet and 2020 literature laureate was working on ‘Averno’, she listened intensely to music by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. She has now donated the record, which is on display at the Nobel Prize Museum together with artefacts from other Nobel Prize laureates. Louise Glück’s tenth collection of poems, ‘Averno’,…

How does it look when a person is shaping the ideas behind a literary classic, the discovery of black holes or the search for clues to the riddle of ageing? This work is depicted in the Nobel Prize Museum’s exhibition From Idea to Nobel Prize, which opens on Valentine’s Day, 14 February. There is a…

During the Nobel Week in December, medicine laureate Svante Pääbo donated a two-volume natural science encyclopaedia to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm’s Old Town. He had received these books from his father Sune Bergström, who was awarded the Nobel Prize forty years earlier. Now the books are on display at the museum.    “My…

The Nobel Prize Summit Truth, Trust and Hope will bring together Nobel Prize laureates and other world-renowned experts and leaders for a global dialogue on how to stop misinformation from eroding public trust in science, scientists, and the institutions they serve. Speakers will include Nobel Prize laureates such as journalist and author Maria Ressa and astrophysicist…

This year’s laureates are 14 in number, including one person and two organisations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Here you can find more information about the Nobel Week. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded 615 times to 989 laureates. Because some have been awarded the prize twice, a total of…

The Nobel Week Lights festival has been under way since 3 December to welcome Stockholm residents and visitors to join in celebrating the Nobel Week. It includes riding on illuminated seesaws in Charles XII Square and singing at the Stockholm Cathedral, which affects the artistic work on the façade. At the Royal Palace, spectators will…

The chef and pastry chef for this year’s Nobel Prize banquet are both new, but they have had plenty of time to plan. The COVID-19 pandemic and two cancelled banquets have made their wait extra-long. Jimmi Eriksson and Annie Hesselstad accepted the assignment as chef and pastry chef three years ago. There have been several…

The Nobel Prize banquet is back, with Nobel Prize laureates and other guests being welcomed to the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall for the first time since 2019. This will be celebrated with a grand musical divertissement. Singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright will guide the audience through his musical universe together with opera singer…

December 6 – 12 will mark the 2022 Nobel Week. The Nobel Foundation has invited this year’s Nobel Prize laureates together with laureates from 2020 and 2021. No fewer than 27 laureates will attend this year’s festivities in Stockholm. A number of other previous laureates will also participate in the Nobel Week Dialogue science conference…

The Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in Australia for the first time, with a virtual pre-event in 2023 and a major public conference in Sydney in 2024. “Global Access Partners and Nobel Prize Outreach believe that bringing people together to share ideas and expertise and question how we want our future to be can…

The 2022 Nobel Week Lights festival will take place from 3 to 11 December – with Nobel Prize laureates on hand in Stockholm for the first time. One innovation this year will be an artistic light installation on the Royal Palace, and visitors are being promised more interactivity. Nobel Prize-awarded LED technology will make the…

For several decades, the Nobel Foundation’s starting point has been to invite all countries with diplomatic representation in Sweden to the Nobel Prize award ceremony, where we celebrate the laureates’ contributions to science, literature and peace. This year, however, the Nobel Foundation has decided to follow the Swedish and European diplomatic policy of not inviting…

Registration is now open for this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, a day-long scientific conference in Stockholm on 9 December that will explore how life on earth may look in the future. Nobel Week Dialogue 2022 will feature an interdisciplinary array of Nobel Prize laureates, including Frances Arnold, Andrea Ghez, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Benjamin List, Paul Nurse…

Water pollution, floods and a rising sea level. The challenges facing people worldwide when it comes to water management are enormous. To discuss these kind of issues, Nobel Prize laureates, environmentalists and scientists will gather on 23 October in Yokohama for a Nobel Prize Dialogue. The event is free to attend and the program offers…

This year’s Nobel diplomas were revealed at the Nobel Peace Center Saturday. The peace prize laureates will receive an art work by the famous Norwegian artist Håkon Bleken. Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022. In…

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition, Life Eternal, will open at Liljevalchs (the Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. The exhibition – which brings together science, art and cultural history – shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues of our era and offers hope for the future. At the same time…

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition entitled “Life Eternal” will open at Liljevalchs (Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. A media preview tour will take place starting at 10.00 on 29 September at Liljevalchs. The exhibition brings together science, art and cultural history. It shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues…

On 13 September 2022 a Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in Singapore and the theme of wellbeing will be discussed. Twelve young people from the Asia-Pacific region have been selected to take part in the meeting focusing on how people’s lives can be improved and how to make a better future. They come from…

An action plan to address the information crisis was launched at The Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of Expression Conference today. Nobel Peace Prize laureates Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, together with other signatories, call for urgent action to save democracy. The two Nobel Peace Prize laureates both talked at the Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of…

New ‘Peace Builders’ Learning Experience Launches in Minecraft to Inspire Youth to Build a Better World. Gamers from across the world are invited to a virtual Nobel Peace Center. Starting August 30, Minecraft players around the world can explore the stories of Nobel Peace Prize laureates and discover ways to mitigate conflict, build peace, and…