Nobel Prize Museum
A small museum on Stortorget telling the prize's history through objects laureates chose themselves.
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The museum opened in 2001 for the prize's centenary in the old stock exchange building on Stortorget, which also houses the Swedish Academy - the body that decides the literature prize - so the institution and the museum share an address. The displays work through individual laureates rather than through disciplines: each has been asked to donate an object that mattered to them, and those objects, from bicycles to notebooks to a piece of the Berlin Wall, hang on a cable system that carries them slowly round the ceiling. There is film, a section on Alfred Nobel and the dynamite fortune behind the endowment, and a cafe where the chairs are signed underneath by laureates.
What you actually see
- Objects chosen by laureates - circulating on an overhead cable.
- The Swedish Academy's building - the old stock exchange on Stortorget.
- Alfred Nobel and the endowment - where the money came from.
- Signed chairs in the cafe - signatures underneath the seats.
When to go
Year round; hours are longer in summer. An hour and a half.
Honest expectations
It is small for the ticket price. The object-based approach is thin on the science itself. Stortorget outside is very crowded in season. The cafe queues at lunchtime.
Nearby
Storkyrkan and the Royal Palace are a minute away.
What to pack for Nobel Prize Museum
Chosen from what this place is for. Tap a kit for the full checklist.
Opening times, ticket prices and seasonal closures change - check the official source before you go: official site.
