Press programme Stockholm
This is the press programme for Nobel Week in Stockholm. You will need to apply for accreditation for some of the activities during the week. Spaces for the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet are very limited.
More information and activities will be added.
All times are in CET.
See the press programme for Oslo here
5 December
08:45
Press conference for Nobel Week
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town, Stockholm
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
Meet the chef and the pastry chef for the Nobel Prize banquet, whose names will be announced at the press conference. You will also hear from students at Beckmans College of Design who have interpreted the Nobel Prizes via fashion creations. The detailed press programme for the week will also be handed out.
Photo and video opportunities for media. Possibility to make separate interviews.
14:45–15:30
Final for the project “Help a scientist” – 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros participates
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town, Stockholm
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
In the project “Help a scientist”, students are given the opportunity to try out real research in collaboration with top scientists in Sweden. This year the project has focused on quantum dots. One teacher and two students per school are invited to a full day closing conference at the Nobel Prize Museum. At 14:45–15:30, 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros will participate and talk to the students.
6 December
10:00–11:00
Guided tour Konserthuset Stockholm (Stockholm Concert Hall)
Konserthuset Stockholm is a neoclassical masterpiece and, every year, the arena for the Nobel Prize award ceremony. Join a guided tour with a special focus on what happens in the building on 10 December when the prizes are being awarded.
Photo and video opportunities for media.
Location: Konserthuset Stockholm, Hötorget (outside at the stairs)
Media accreditation: [email protected]
13:00
Press conference: Nobel Prize laureate in literature
Location: Swedish Academy, Börssalen, Källargränd 4, Stockholm
Registration required.
More information: [email protected]
13:45–14:30
Artefacts from the Nobel Prize laureates
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town, Stockholm
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
In the morning, the Nobel Prize laureates gather at the Nobel Prize Museum. As a tradition they hand over an artefact to the museum and sign a chair. The new artefacts will be on display in the museum for media. Curators from the museum will tell the stories of the objects. (The laureates will not participate). Photo and video opportunities for media.
15:00
Press conference: Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine
Location: The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 1, Solna
Registration required. Accreditation for media
Email: [email protected]
Possibility to make individual interviews with the laureates in connection to the press conference.
16:30–17:30
Sneak peek: Nobel Week Lights
Meeting point: Stockholm Klara Mälarstrand, see link to Google Maps
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
Sneak peek of the artworks and meet some of the artists of this year’s Nobel Week Lights. The last preparations are made, and the artworks are tested. Warm clothes and good shoes are recommended. The artwork at the City Hall – Leading Lights – is a tribute to the achievements and discoveries of female Nobel Prize laureates. It includes an image of this year’s literature laureate, Han Kang. She will also be featured in the artwork De Aderton at Klara Mälarstrand.
Photo and video opportunities for media. There will be two press tours: one on 6 December 16:30–17:30 (a sneak peek the night before it opens) and one on 9 December at 18:00–19:00.
7 December
09:30
Press conference: Nobel Prize laureates in physics, chemistry and economic sciences
Location: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
Registration required. Accreditation for media
More information: [email protected]
Possibility to make individual interviews with the laureates in connection to the press conference.
14:00
Nobel Prize lectures in physiology or medicine
Location: The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Aula Medica, Nobels väg 6, Solna
Registration is required. More information and registration
Broadcast services
17:00
Nobel Prize lecture in literature
Location: The Swedish Academy, Börssalen, Källargränd 4, Stockholm
No media accreditation, those interested in attending can be invited as guests. There will be no interviews and no possibility to take photos or make audio recordings.
The lecture is fully booked – no more seats available.
More information
Broadcast services
Interviews in the banquet kitchen
Media are welcome to the banquet kitchen in Stockholm City Hall, for interviews with this year’s Chef, Pastry Chef, and Head Chef Gunnar Eriksson. There are opportunities on 7 December and 8 December, between 09:00 and 15:00. All visits need to be booked in advance. Please contact Maria Torén, press officer for Stadshusrestauranger, [email protected] or +46 709 48 99 90.
These visits are now fully booked.
8 December
09:00–10:20
Nobel Prize lectures in physics
Location: Aula Magna, Stockholm University
More information and registration
Broadcast services
10:50–12:40
Nobel Prize lectures in chemistry
Location: Aula Magna, Stockholm University
More information and registration
Broadcast services
14:00–15:50
Prize lectures in economic sciences
Location: Aula Magna, Stockholm University
More information and registration
Broadcast services
17:00
Literature Night
Location: DE ADERTON (artwork), Klara Mälarstrand
Register through: [email protected]
A beautiful evening of recitals of texts written by female Nobel Prize laureates in literature that are presented in the artwork De Aderton (one of the artworks in Nobel Week Lights). Texts from Grazia Deledda, Annie Ernaux, Han Kang and Olga Tokarczuk will be read in Swedish and their original language by different experts.
(No laureates will participate)
Photo and video opportunities for media.
More information
19:00
Nobel Prize Concert
Location: Konserthuset Stockholm/Stockholm Concert Hall.
More information
No more press seats available.
Broadcast services
Interviews in the banquet kitchen
Media are welcome to the banquet kitchen in Stockholm City Hall, for interviews with this year’s Chef, Pastry Chef, and Head Chef Gunnar Eriksson. There are opportunities on 7 December and 8 December, between 09:00 and 15:00. All visits need to be booked in advance. Please contact Maria Torén, press officer for Stadshusrestauranger, [email protected] or +46 709 48 99 90.
These visits are now fully booked.
9 December
10:00–15:30
Nobel Week Dialogue 2024: The Future of Health
Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, Stockholm
More information
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
The 2024 dialogue brings together people from across the spectrum of science, society and culture to explore the future of health. The event will explore ground-breaking medical advancements, disease prevention strategies, and innovative ways to enhance our lives. The dialogue will also address planetary health, and the environment’s critical impact on us all.
18:00–19:00
Press tour: Nobel Week Lights
Location: Meeting point outside the Grand Hôtel, S. Blasieholmshamnen 8
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
Nobel Week Lights is an artistic tribute to the Nobel Prize laureates and their achievements. The light installations will be shown outdoors in Stockholm 7 December–15 December. In this tour you will see some of the highlights. The artwork at the City Hall – Leading Lights – is a tribute to the achievements and discoveries of female Nobel Prize laureates. It includes an image of this year’s literature laureate, Han Kang. She will also be featured in the artwork De Aderton at Klara Mälarstrand.
Photo and video opportunities for media.
More information: https://nobelweeklights.se
10 December
11:00–18:00
Nobel Prize Museum
The Nobel Prize Museum is open during the Nobel Day for media and visitors.
During the Nobel Day, the museum is filled with festive activities, and you can follow the live broadcast from the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm.
Photo and video opportunities for media.
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town, Stockholm
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
12:30–13:15 and 15:10–15:50
Stand up positions, Stockholm City Hall
Stand up positions for tv-media in allocated position inside Stockholm City Hall, before the Nobel Prize banquet.
Ten-minute slots, 300 €. Tape or live. SVT provides equipment.
Bookable between CET 12:30–13:15 and 15:10–15:50 (GMT 14:10–14:50)
For booking, please contact SVT, [email protected]. Deadline 18 November.
Please note: no bags or cases of equipment are allowed inside Stockholm City Hall. No laureates or guests will be present during the tape/live slots.
16:00
Nobel Prize award ceremony
Location: Konserthuset Stockholm/Stockholm Concert Hall.
The application is closed.
For questions, please contact [email protected]
Broadcast services
During the prize award ceremony, the Nobel Prize laureates receive a diploma and medal from HM The King. Speeches are given by representatives from the prize awarding institutions. The speeches can be obtained against embargo via [email protected]
The diplomas will be published on nobelprize.org on 10 December and can be obtained here.
19:00
Nobel Prize banquet
Location: Stockholm City Hall
The application is closed.
For questions, please contact [email protected]
Broadcast services
During the banquet, one laureate per award category gives a speech of thanks. The speeches will be published on nobelprize.org on 10 December.
12 December
19:00
Nobel reading with Han Kang at The Royal Dramatic Theatre
As every year, the Royal Dramatic Theater pays attention to this year’s prize laureate in literature with an evening of reading, conversation and music. The evening begins with a conversation about Han Kang’s writing between Yukiko Duke and the author, translator and literary critic Kristoffer Leandoer. Next, a talk between Yukiko and Han Kang. Actors Karin Franz Körlof, Elin Klinga, Livia Millhagen, Magnus Roosmann and Andreas Rothlin Svensson read selected texts. Music with pianist Roland Pöntinen. The event will be in both English and Swedish.
In collaboration with book publishing company Natur och Kultur.
For press accreditation contact Lena Törner: [email protected]
Location: The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Main stage
Throughout Nobel Week
Nobel Week Lights
Nobel Week Lights is an artistic tribute to the Nobel Prize laureates and their achievements. The light installations will be shown outdoors in Stockholm 7 December–15 December, 16:00–22:00.
More information
Exhibition: ‘These things changed the world’
For the first time, the Nobel Prize Museum is displaying a large selection of items from its collection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates. These objects tell stories of remarkable discoveries and life achievements. More than 250 artefacts bear witness to revolutionary inventions, courageous peace efforts, groundbreaking ideas and innovative literature.
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town
More information and opening hours
Free entrance for media.
If you wish to have a guided tour, please contact [email protected]
Media contacts for the Nobel Week in Stockholm
Inquiries regarding the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet in Stockholm, the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Prize Museum: [email protected] Inquiries regarding licensing, usage of texts, photos and videos: [email protected]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Eva Nevelius Press Secretary
+ 46 70 878 67 63
[email protected]
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
Ann-Mari Dumanski
+ 46 8 524 878 00
[email protected]
The Swedish Academy
Louise Hedberg
+ 46 8 555 125 02
[email protected]