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…
Peace Prize laureates and are coming to Oslo to take part in the Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of Expression Conference on 2 September. Since they received the prize in December 2021 their situation have been worse, but they both continue to fight for a free and independent press. “We are very happy to be able…
On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition entitled Life Eternal will open at Liljevalchs 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. Can we outwit death? That…
On 13 September 2022 a Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in Singapore with Nobel Prize laureates, students and other experts. The theme for the event is how people’s lives can be improved and how to make a better future. Rising global temperatures, global pandemics, war in Europe, intensifying geopolitical tensions in Asia and the…
On 7 July an exclusive conversation with two Nobel Prize laureates will be held in Madrid. They will be invited to talk about their attitudes towards diversity, curiosity and the importance of being able to use imagination in their work. The event is open for the public and media to attend. Ardem Patapoutian (2021 Nobel…
A tie, a book and a magnetic tape were artefacts that were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum when five Nobel Prize laureates paid a visit on Tuesday, 14 June. Those laureates who had not been to the museum before also took the opportunity to sign a chair for the museum’s Bistro Nobel. When Nobel…
HRH Crown Prince Haakon opens a new exhibition about Fridtjof Nansen on World Refugee Day, 20 June. In 2022, it will be a hundred years since Nansen received the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Nobel Peace Center celebrates the anniversary with an exhibition on Nansen’s humanitarian legacy. “Fridtjof Nansen is best known as a polar…
At a ceremony on Thursday, 19 May, the Nobel Foundation returned a Mycenaean gold ring to a delegation from Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports. During the Second World War, many artefacts were stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, one of which was the Mycenaean gold ring. The ring was later bought by Nobel…
Researcher and author Emma Frans and Susanna Pettersson, Director General of Nationalmuseum, are joining the board of the Nobel Center Foundation. The Nobel Center Foundation (Stiftelsen Nobel Center) is responsible for the public activities currently being carried out by the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm’s Old Town and which in the future will move into…
This Friday, the white peace dove will again fly over Oslo City Hall square. It will carry “The Good News of the Week”, reminding us that the world is moving in the right direction, even in times of trouble. At noon on Friday 13 May, a white dove will be released from the windows of…
On Wednesday, 4 May, the Nobel Foundation announced that SEK 1.2 billion (more than USD 120 million) has been donated by the Erling-Persson Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to build the Nobel Center − a house for science, culture and dialogue to be located at Slussen in central Stockholm. This means that…