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…
Two years ago it was announced that the Nobel Center will be located at Slussen in Stockholm. The Nobel Foundation are now taking the next step and invite you to a press conference to find out more. We will be communicating how the building will be funded and what kind of public activities will take…
The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 6,103 m (5,176) at the end of 2021. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 5,720 m (4,882) at the end of the year. This generated a return of +18.4 (+8.5) per cent during 2021.…
On Thursday, the Nobel Prize Museum was visited by 2021 literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, who is in Stockholm this week. During his visit, he donated his dictionary and took the opportunity to sign a chair in the museum’s Bistro. He will be returning this evening Friday 29 April at 18.00 CET, for a conversation on…
‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is back with a new season featuring our newest batch of Nobel Prize laureates from 2021. Get to know the individuals behind the prizes when the season begins on 28 April. Episode one of the new season features football fan and chemistry laureate David MacMillan. Together with podcast host Adam Smith, he…
Bringing extra star power to this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December will be German soprano Diana Damrau. Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert, which is held in honour of the Nobel Prize laureates. “The Nobel Prize Concert is a highly appreciated feature of the Nobel…
The late Danish senior lecturer Niels Christian Thostrup bequeathed more than half of his assets to the Nobel Foundation. Mr Thostrup had a lifelong interest in physics and mathematics, especially mathematical physics. “We are very grateful for this bequest and for Niels Christian Thostrup’s faith in the Nobel Foundation. It is uncommon but obviously very…
This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 3-10 October. The Nobel Foundation has also decided to invite the 2022 Nobel Prize laureates to the Nobel Week in Stockholm in December together with the 2020 and 2021 laureates. A prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) and a banquet at the…
The ‘Active Citizen’ game, which features Nobel Peace laureates like the Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai, will be available in 29 languages for all Minecraft: Education Edition players. Oslo, 1 March 2022: In Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular games, players can build anything they want — including their vision for world peace. Today, the…
During the Nobel Day, 10 December 2021, the official Nobel Prize websites were subjected to a cyberattack that has now been reported to the police by the Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The attack was averted and did not affect website users’ experience or the dissemination of content. A so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…