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…
The decision by the Nobel Foundation to invite all ambassadors to the Nobel Prize award ceremony, in accordance with previous practice, has provoked strong reactions. The basis for the decision is that we believe that it is important and right to reach out as widely as possible with the values and messages that the Nobel…
The Nobel Foundation has decided to henceforth invite representatives of all parties that have parliamentary representation in Sweden through democratic elections to the Nobel festivities on 10 December. “It is clear that the world is increasingly divided into spheres, where dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced,” says Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of…
A theatre performance is currently emerging at the Nobel Prize Museum. Actors Katarina Krogh and Fabian Hedlund, together with director Johan Bark and Nobel Prize Museum curator Carin Klaesson, are creating a completely new production based on texts from Nobel Prize laureates in literature. 30 September marks the premiere of the performance, which has emerged…
A powerful, much-used chain, which has been employed in the struggle to draw attention to political prisons who are incarcerated in Russia, has been added to the Nobel Prize Museum’s collection. The Center for Civil Liberties ‒ one of three 2022 Nobel Peace Prize recipients ‒ donated this artefact, which will be on display at…
This year’s Nobel Prize Concert brings together world-renowned conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and acclaimed violinist Julia Fischer, together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. On 8 December, works by Boccherini, Brahms and Ravel will be performed on the Konserthuset Stockholm stage. The audience can also hear a work by the exciting young composer Gabriella Smith. Finnish-born…
Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by fungi. They are all around us and inside us, but they often remain invisible. In September, a new exhibition opening at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm will showcase how both art and science explore fungi. The visitor will be greeted by everything from Carsten Höller’s sculptures of…
Humans are facing existential challenges. On 24 September laureates and other experts will meet in Seoul, Korea to discuss how future generations can equip themselves to tackle these pressing questions – what do we need to know and how should we learn it to be able to build a better world? Students from high schools…
Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates are among the speakers at the annual Nobel Peace Conference in Oslo 31 August. Indigenous rights and the situation for human rights activists in Russia and Iran are on the agenda. For the third consecutive year, the Nobel Peace Center is arranging an international peace conference and festival about the…
The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation has appointed a new Chair. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President of Stockholm University, is assuming the position. Sven Nyman, MSc, has also been elected as a new member of the Board. “It is gratifying that Astrid Söderbergh Widding has agreed to become our new chair. She has extensive…
The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 5,799 m (6,103) at the end of 2022. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 5,515 m (5,720). This generated a return of -2.0 (+18.4) per cent during 2022. During the past five years, investment…
‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is returning with new episodes. This time out, listeners meet the class of 2022 Nobel Prize laureates including Morten Meldal, Carolyn Bertozzi and Svante Pääbo, who share tales from their lives, their careers, and their failures and successes. In the first episode – launched today – host Adam Smith speaks to 2022 chemistry laureate…
A gift with a powerful story behind it has been presented to the Nobel Prize Museum. Nelly Sachs’ suitcase reminds us of Europe during World War II and the escape of a mother and daughter from Nazi terror in Berlin to Sweden. The contents of the suitcase were the only things they carried with them.…