Nobel Prize Museum
The world's most abstract prizes made tangible — through objects the laureates donated themselves and a chocolate gold medal you can eat.
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Opened in 2001 inside Gamla Stan's former Stock Exchange on Stortorget square, the museum pairs personal artifacts from laureates — Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill among them — with their life stories, plus films and science debates. The Swedish Academy and Nobel Library share the same building.
What to look for
- "Sketches of Science": 42 Nobel laureates photographed beside their own hand-drawn sketch of their prize-winning discovery
- Alfred Nobel's gold medal cast in dark fair-trade chocolate, sold in the museum shop
- Swedish "dynamite" candy in the shop, jalapeño-flavored
On the north side of Stortorget square in Gamla Stan — the old town centre of Stockholm; opening hours and admission not confirmed here, check ahead.
Nobel Prize Museum is one of 34 sights worth the detour in Stockholm, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Stockholm pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Stockholm
- Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThis is the body that picks up the phone to tell physicists and chemists they've won the Nobel Prize.
- Avicii ArenaA 110-metre sphere that serves as the Sun in the world's largest scale model of the solar system — and you can walk right up to it.
- Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery)A 1920 cemetery built on old pine-covered gravel quarries that went on to reshape how the world designs burial grounds.
- Stockholm PalaceThe same ground has held a royal residence since the 1250s — the current palace took nearly six decades to finish, outlived its architect, and the Rococo interiors are largely unchanged.
- Vasa MuseumA 64-gun warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 — and is still almost entirely intact.
- Skansen150 actual Swedish buildings, shipped piece by piece to one hill — a whole country preserved before industry erased it.