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…

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. On Wednesday, 13 December, the Nobel Prize Museum was visited by her two 17-year-old children, Ali and Kiana Rahmani, who had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in Oslo on the Nobel Day, 10 December. They donated four artefacts and…

Today is the beginning of the Nobel Week. This year’s laureates are meeting for the first time at the Nobel Prize Museum, where they will each hand over an artefact and sign a chair in the museum’s Bistro. At the same time, the Nobel Prize banquet chef and pastry chef will be introduced. This year’s…

Two of the 2023 Nobel Prize laureates in physics and chemistry will talk to ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen on 11 December during Nobel Week and simultaneously – through space and time – liaise with their fellow laureates Niels Bohr and Selma Lagerlöf. The live conversation will take place at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm,…

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition tells the story about and her courageous fight for freedom and human rights in Iran. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has written some of the texts exclusively for the exhibition. The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition: WOMAN – LIVE – FREEDOM will be officially opened by the laureate’s family the…

This year’s divertissement at the Nobel Prize banquet on 10 December was inspired by Stockholm City Hall’s centenary celebrations and by all the music that has echoed between the walls of its Blue Hall over the past century. There will also be several other occasions during the Nobel Week to enjoy music, such as at…

The exhibition YOKO ONO – PEACE is POWER opens at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo on 1 December. In the weeks before, the world-famous artist’s messages of peace will light up Norwegian cities. For the first time since 2005, the world leading artist and peace activist Yoko Ono, is exhibiting in Norway. YOKO ONO…

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…