This year’s Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm on 8 December will bring together internationally celebrated soprano Malin Byström and the new conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka. Together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, they will perform a programme including the final scene from the opera Salome by Richard Strauss and Sergei…

The Nobel Peace Center gathered Nobel Peace Prize laureates, activists, decision makers and experts today in Oslo for the annual Nobel Peace Conference and Festival. Oslo, September 5, 2024: The Nobel Peace Conference Woman – Life – Freedom highlighted the dangerous rollbacks of women’s rights across the world and discussed best practices to counter them,…

This October, the Nobel Prize Dialogue makes its debut in Sydney, uniting leading thinkers from science and beyond, to explore and discuss the future of decision-making. The evening event at UNSW Sydney will feature engaging conversations between three Nobel Prize laureates: peace laureate and physics laureates and . Writer, composer and advocate for critical thinking…

This autumn, the Nobel Prize Museum will tackle a major topic in a small exhibition. THEN, NOW, LATER will explore how some Nobel Prize laureates in physics and literature have dealt with the subject of time and have debated its nature. Visitors will also be able to experience a video work in which the artist…

In the exhibition The Echo Chamber, opening at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on 19 September, the visitor is invited into the surreal world of Swedish star photographer Erik Johansson. The Echo Chamber is Swedish artist Erik Johansson’s first exhibition in Norway. The exhibition was a success at Fotografiska in Stockholm last year and…

Early in June, Swedish Nobel Prize laureate turned 100 years old. His centenary birthday was celebrated with a seminar at the Nobel Prize Museum on 17 June. He also donated a scientific instrument that he and David Hubel used in their Nobel Prize-awarded research. On Monday, the Nobel Prize Museum added an ophthalmoscope to its…

The Nobel Peace Center offers a special treat for visitors to the museum this summer: The children of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi will give special guided tours in the exhibition about their imprisoned mother. In December last year, Kiana and Ali Rahmani came to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf…

Citizens across the world will share their wishes for peace as Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree will be on display in five cities on five continents at the same time. In Oslo, people can take part in the activation outside the Norwegian Parliament on Friday 7 June. The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and Japan Institute…

Hanna Stjärne will be the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation. She will thus be tasked with strengthening the finances and position of the Nobel Prize in the long term and further developing the public activities surrounding the Nobel Prize in Sweden, Norway and globally. Hanna Stjärne, who is currently the Director General of…

Across four episodes we hear from Nobel Prize laureates about the spread of disinformation in their fields of work and the young people around the world combatting and exposing these distortions. In a new four-part series titled Whose Truth? Babita Sharma hears from Nobel Prize laureates, global analysts, activists, and changemakers to discuss global problems…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 6,233 m (5,799) at the end of 2023. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 6,041 m (5,515). This generated a return of +10.7 (−2.0) per cent during 2023. During the past five years, investment…

The Embassy of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden, One World Echoes in Oslo and the Nobel Peace Center cordially invite you to mark World Press Freedom Day at the Nobel Peace Center, Friday 3 May.  3 May is World Press Freedom Day; a day to celebrate the fundamental principle of press freedom…

In mid-April three Nobel Prize laureates will come to Rio and São Paulo. Medicine laureate will be joined by chemistry laureate and physics laureate . Together with other experts and students from 14 countries in the area they will discuss how science can benefit society. Science can inevitably help shape the future and tackle societal…

What significance can an artefact have, and what kind of story does it tell about the person who owned it? For the first time, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition “These things changed the world” displays a large selection from its collection of artefacts donated by Nobel Prize laureates. The exhibition features more than 250…

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…