Today, the Nobel Foundation presents the first design of the Nobel Center project – a public building for science, literature and peace. It will be an international symbol of knowledge, focusing on the Nobel Prize laureates’ stories and groundbreaking achievements. The building is designed by David Chipperfield Architects, and the project is made possible thanks…

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado did not make it to the Peace Prize Ceremony, but tonight she and her family was present at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo to open the exhibition about herself. “The exhibition captures the essence of our struggle”, a visibly moved Maria Corina Machado said as she conducted…

For the first time, the Nobel Prize banquet chef consists of a duo This year, chef duo Tommy Myllymäki and Pi Le will be in charge of the first and main course for the 1,300 guests in the Blue Hall on 10 December. They are joined by Frida Bäcke, who for the second year in…

100 students get to experience the Nobel Prize award ceremony on 10 December One hundred secondary school students and teachers are now for the first time invited to the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Konserthuset Stockholm to see when the laureates are awarded their medals and diplomas. “We want young people to feel that science…

Jacob Mühlrad’s newly composed work inspired by quantum physics performed at the Nobel Prize banquet With less than two weeks left until the Nobel Prize banquet, the Nobel Foundation now reveals the people behind this year’s divertissement in City Hall on 10 December. Jacob Mühlrad has composed and is in charge of the music. Artist…

Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is expected to the Nobel Peace Center on 11 December to open the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition. It tells the story about her work for democracy in Venezuela and a democracy under threat globally. Every year, the Nobel Peace Center creates an exhibition about the latest Nobel Peace…

Access to affordable, high-quality healthcare is one of the most striking achievements of the last century. It reflects the steady advance of medicine and health policy through open, international collaboration. But across the world, success is uneven. This year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, on 9 December in Gothenburg, will explore some ways to achieve health for…

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…