The Nobel Museum

The man...

Were y'all aware that the Nobel Prize is Swedish (though the Peace Prize is awarded inward Oslo)? Were y'all aware that this is because the prizes were stipulated inward the final volition & will of a Swede... Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite?

...and the prize.

If this is word for y'all or if your curiosity is piqued, so I conduct maintain the perfect museum for you: The Nobel Museum. This museum is dedicated to both the man, Alfred Nobel, together with the famous prize that he founded. It is non a large museum, but it is even so quite comprehensive. There is an surface area dedicated to the life of Nobel equally good equally a permanent exhibition regarding the history of the prize which includes several interesting objects donated yesteryear Nobel Laureates.

They also conduct maintain temporary exhibitions at the museum together with the electrical flow exhibition is "Making Peace" which is a look, through photography, at the people together with events that conduct maintain been involved inward the produce out for peace, including Nobel Peace Prize winners. This evidence volition run through Nov 17th.

Part of the Peace exhibit.

A dyad of other interesting facts virtually the museum... brand certain y'all await upwardly when y'all are inward the museum. Above the heads of the museum visitors is a moving conveyor belt of sorts amongst banners featuring Nobel prize winners. H5N1 fun idea! Another fun see is works life inward the museum café. Make certain y'all conduct maintain the fourth dimension together with plough your stool upside down. The bottom of every stool is covered amongst the signatures of yesteryear Nobel Laureates!

Look upwardly and...

The museum is located inward the one-time stock telephone commutation edifice on the foursquare Stortorget inward the one-time town (Gamla Stan), only a fifteen infinitesimal walk from the Rival Hotel. During the summertime months the museum is opened upwardly every solar daytime from 10am to 8pm. They conduct maintain guided tours inward English linguistic communication several times a solar daytime (free of charge), which I recommend. If y'all are interested inward to a greater extent than Nobel atmosphere... brand certain y'all see the City Hall, where they conduct maintain the famous Nobel banquet every year, equally good equally the Concert Hall (Konserthuset), where the awards ceremony is held.

...look downwardly (under your chair).