Nobelmuseet

Nicely curated museum. Here comes the spontaneous travel findings: Look underneath the chairs in the Café of the Museum, you will find signatures of past winners!

Good small museum. The tour guide needs to be louder bc there are just too many people

When I went to the Nobel Museum I really had some high hopes of learning more about Alfred Nobel, his enduring legacy and of the Nobel laureates, people whose dedication and intellectual contributions I have always admire; even envied. However, such was really not to be had. The museum is rather scant, having very few, actually hardly any artifacts at all. It’s really rather small and I personally found the explanations concerning the prize winners to be rather boring. The place is generally cluttered with nothing but video type pictures of the laureates with some of them speaking about things that had nothing to do with the how they were chosen or the impact of their intellectual contributions.
The museum has a gift shop which doesn’t amount to much and a small café. The café, fortunately, has some very good Swedish coffee along with dessert offerings.
I kept think I must have missed something about the place, especially since it seems to be able to maintain a Four Stars Unilocal rating, but I spent some time in it and don’t think that I overlooked anything. As far as museums go, I found it rather boring, lack luster and, other than the desserts at the café, a general waste of time, not amounting to much.

I was excited to visit the Nobel Museum, but disappointed in the actual experience. I felt like the museum was fairly light on content, especially given that the Nobel Prize has been administered for over 100 years and been awarded to so many people with deep, fascinating bodies of work. I enjoyed the scrolling posters of Nobel winners and the section of the museum with winners’ artifacts, but most of the content was in the form of videos that could just as easily have been watched online. In general, I like going to museums to see items that can’t be seen anywhere else, and for the most part, the Nobel Museum did not meet this standard. I wish there had been more artifacts and more detail on the work done by Nobel winners.
They do have a really nice kids’ area. I imagine it would be a great thing to find if you were visiting with your young children.

I really enjoyed the tour (in English). Small museum but worth a visit.

As someone who is interested in science (my major in university was microbiology and immunology), I found the Nobel Museum quite interesting. In addition to the various exhibits, there are touch screens in the center of the museum with information on each Nobel laureate. (Unlike the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, you could control the information on the screen.) There was one touch screen per decade, and you could select which topic you wanted to read about (chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, peace, and economics), and then once you have selected the subject, you can read about each Nobel laureate of that subject throughout that decade. This was the exhibit my sister and I spent the most time at, as we were quite interested in reading about the Nobel laureates. However, since there was so much to read and it is just not possible to read about every single Nobel laureate in every subject, we picked and chose the topics we were most interested in (the sciences).
For the most part the information was fairly informative, although as people with knowledge and understanding of science, it was frustrating when we would read, for example, «So-​and-​so won the Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of an enzyme that does XYZ» and they wouldn’t list the enzyme. I guess it’s because most people wouldn’t care or understand, but would it really that difficult to list the specific thing that was discovered? However, overall I really enjoyed reading about the Nobel laureates on the touch screens.
The one major flaw is that the touch screens were too close together, so if someone was looking at a nearby screen, it was rather uncomfortable, and there really wasn’t room for people to look at two nearby screens. Also, since there was a lot of information contained within one touch screen, if you wanted to spend a significant amount of time reading the information, like me and my sister, then that prevented others from taking a look. (Fortunately it wasn’t particularly busy when we were there, and we noticed that most people who looked at the touch screen only stayed there for a couple of minutes, so we did not appear to be preventing others from taking a look.) Great exhibit, but having more touch screens (perhaps two per decade?) and more space between them would definitely improve the experience.
I recommend this museum if you enjoy science or are interested in learning about the Nobel laureates.

Two words worth mentioning:
— The museum isn’t very large so you can visit it fairly quickly.
— I loved the Bistro Nobel, the museum’s tiny café. You can get anything from delicate treats, coffee, tea, or an actual lunch meal. I tried a chocolate ball, and OMG, I had never tasted anything so divine! it was definitely Nobel Prize worthy. Overall this café made for a pleasant visit to sit down, relax, and take a load off my feet. And OMG I’m still dreaming of that chocolate ball to this day…
PS: As a fun assignment, try to find a display of Alfred Nobel’s dynamite in the museum. It was a little tricky for me to find, but it’s there. Some of you may not be aware but Alfred Nobel made his fortune as the inventor of dynamite. KA-​BOOM!

I can’t compare this museum to other Nobel Prize exhibitions because this is the only one I’ve visited. It was smaller than I imagined, but there’s so much information. It’s fascinating and definitely worth visiting. It could be better though. I wish it was more engaging; it’s not too much of an interactive museum. 90% of my time was spent reading, 5% participating in the limited interactive sections and 5% watching the featured presentation. If I was more interested in Alfred Nobel, then I probably would have been fine just reading.

Fascinating museum with a variety of ways to learn about the history of Alfred Nobel, the prize and ceremony as well as the prize winners from over the years

For a compact building it has a decent amount to offer. Two theaters, a small permanent exhibits, a kids area, the history of Alfred Nobel, and a large temporary exhibition zone.
Times visited: 1

A nice museum with a great tour in English. Has a lot of info about all the laureates on the information screens, but mostly it is about Alfred Nobel himself. There are a lot of items on display that belonged to him too. There is even a room for children with various activities.
The museum is quite small, since on the second floor of the building is the academy which decides who gets the literature prize every year.

Small museum but really worth visiting. Go to the English tour at 11:15am. In the winter, there’s a line up to enter the museum already at 11am. Be sure not to miss it.
And, don’t miss the ice cream! It really was a good ice cream.

It is an awesome museum if you dig science.

The Nobel ice cream was served at the Nobel Prize Banquets until 1998. And now it is exclusive for the Nobel Museum.

Boring museum with few things connected the nobel prize and not mutch information or history behind the prize.

Inspiring. Nobel was THE man.

Make sure you have at least 2 hours to tour the Nobel Museum properly. I did the English tour with a guide and it was 100% worthwhile. If you’re in Stockholm, specifically around Gamla Stan, you have to stop by and learn about the History of the Nobel prizes and Alfred Nobel.
The tour guide we had was so engaging, and I think that is what made the experience so memorable. The front of the museum has pillars to represent each of the nobel prizes, and there’s a good story about the 6^th pillar representing a prize in economics that was added later. If you go to the right there’s an interesting exhibit that shows the timeline of Alfred Nobel’s life and also a map of his many businesses around the world that he had. The back of the museum has story upon story about both struggle and peace around the world, it’s truly inspiring.

Kann man hin gehen, muss man nicht.
Es ist jetzt nicht wirklich berrauschend, aber für Nerds und Freunde der Naturwissenschaften schon ziemlich gut. Es werden Bilder der Nobelpreisträger gezeigt und warum sie den Preis bekommen haben. Dazu haben die Preisträger spontan Zeichnungen skizziert, die ihre Erfindung erklären sollen. Das ist schon ganz cool, weil man ein bischen die Leute dahinter erkennen kann. Es ist sehr sympathisch aufgemacht und schon interessant.
Mir hat es sehr gut gefallen, ich kann mir aber vorstellen, dass es für manch anderen nicht spektakulär genug ist. Für Kinder ist es glaube ich auch nicht wirklich gut geeignet.

Has to be my favorite museum in the city… and that’s saying something considering just how many museums there are. It’s not a large museum, but I still managed to spend 3 hours in there looking at everything, watching the videos in the two galleries, etc.
The café was pretty good, and when you flip the chairs over, you see that they are all signed underneath by past prize winners. So… you’re sitting in the café enjoying some food and people come in and start flipping chairs and snapping pictures. Interesting.
Has a little gift shop also, where you can by books written by, for, and about past prize winners.

If you are in Stockholm you definitely need to go to the Nobel museum — ok, as if there are not enough museums in stockholm, but the Nobel museum is very interesting and educational, especially about Albert Nobel and Marie Curie.
Price:
Adults pay SEK 80
Students pay SEK 60
Opening Hours:
May 15-​September 15 2012
Every day 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Definitely check out the museum shop, too! I bought several postcards portraying a Nobel laureate. Its a nice idea to send a postcard from stockholm.

Very interesting exhibition about Marie Curie and her scientific work and personal life! Go and visit :)

Tolles Museum, dass man unbedingt mit einer Führung erleben sollte (11:15 und 15:00 auf Englisch). Leider Fotoverbot im Inneren, aber trotzdem sehenswert. Im Café gibt es einzelne Sessel, die von Nobelpreisträgern signiert wurden. Als Puffer zur nächsten Führung eignen sich die zahlreichen Kurzfilme. Leider ist das Museum etwas klein.

Ich war vor 6 Jahren in dem Museum in der Stochkolmer Börse und mich hat damals auch etwas gestört, dass die Exponate nur in schwedisch beschriftet waren. Leider hat sich das wohl nicht geändert.
Aber ansonsten ist das Nobelmuseet (Nobelmuseum) (
) schon sehr interessant und aufschlussreich, somit auf alle Fälle einen Besuch wert.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (
), DER schwedische Chemiker, wurde am 21. Oktober 1833 in Stockholm geboren und starb am 10. Dezember 1896 in San Remo. Er hat nicht nur das Dynamit erfunden, nein er hatte 355 Patente. Nach ihm ist das chemische Element Nobelium (
), ein künstliches, kurzlebiges, radioaktives Transuran, ein Metall, benannt.
An seinem Todestag wird der Nobelpreis (
) verliehen. Wer diesen in Stockholm erhält, bekommt die höchste Auszeichnung auf den Gebieten Wissenschaft, Literatur und Gesellschaft.
Die meisten Nobelpreisverleihungen finden im Stadshuset (http://www. /​) von Stockholm, dem wohl bekanntesten Gebäude der Stadt statt.
Der Nobelpreis wird vom schwedischen König überreicht.
Das Preisgeld wird aus den Zinsen des von Alfred Nobel, dem Erfinder des Dynamits, erwirtschafteten Vermögens ausgezahlt. Es beträgt seit 2001 je Kategorie zehn Millionen Kronen (etwa 970.000 EUR).
Der Friedensnobelpreis wird übrigens nicht in Stockholm, sondern in Oslo verliehen.
Der Preisträger wird von dem vom norwegischen Parlament bestimmten Nobelpreiskomitee ausgewählt, obwohl der Friedensnobelpreis auch von Alfred Nobel gestiftet wurde.
Eine der ersten damit Ausgezeichneten war seine erste Sekretärin und Pazifistin (Bertha von Suttner (
)), deren Wege sich nach einer Woche Tätigkeit wieder trennten. Im Streit um
~ «Frieden schaffen mit starken Waffen» (Alfred Nobel) oder
~ «Frieden schaffen ohne Waffen» (Bertha von Suttner)
soll es zwischen den beiden einen jahrelangen Disput gegeben haben.
Von Alfred Bernhard Nobel (
) stammt u. a. der Ausspruch:
Ein Lexikon handhaben wissen ist besser als zu glauben,
ein solches zu sein.”

Jetzt waren wir schon um neue da — und sind irgendwie um das Schloss gelaufen, bis das Museum eröffnet war.
Und was gab’s zu sehen? Viele Nobelpreise und deren Träger und viel Zensur (und das war irgendwie dann sehr interessant).
Irgendwie ist man drin, und wieder draußen läuft dann runter zum Wasser, setzt nach Djuregåden über und besucht einige andere offenen oder geschlossenen Museen

Das Nobelmuseum liegt ganz zentral in Gamla Stan. Es ist sehr schön gestaltet und man kann sich einen tollen Überblick über die Nobelpreisgeschichte verschaffen. Schade ist nur, dass auf viele Exponaten die Beschreibung ausschließlich auf schwedisch erfolgt, was es uns Ausländern natürlich schwer macht, es zu verstehen (und einige Dinge erklären sich nicht nur übers Sehen.).

Das Nobelmuseum liegt in der Altstadt Gamla Stan. Es befindet sich in einem sehr schönen Gebäude (ehemalige Börse) und hat eine angenehme Größe, sodass man es gut schafft, in ca. einer Stunde alles gesehen zu haben. Es zeigt die Geschichte Alfred Nobels, der den Nobelpreis stiftete, der jährlich in Stockholm verliehen wird. Außerdem gibt es Informationen über einige Nobelpreisträger und ihre Leistungen in Form von Filmen. Die aktuellen Preisträger werden ganz zu Anfang dargestellt, dahinter werden die Jahrzehnte kurz zusammengefasst. Dazu gibt es eine Ausstellung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse (zum Beispiel im Bereich Medizin/​Physiologie) die zeigen, welche Hilfsmittel wissenschaftler verwenden, um ihre Erkenntnisse vorstellbar zu machen. Was ich vermisst hatte, war eine übersichtliche Liste der Personen, die wann den NObelpreis und wofür erhalten haben, aber da muss einem dann wohl das Internet weiterhelfen. Deshalb ziehe ich einen Stern ab, da ich auch nicht im Museumsshop war, da der schon zu war (wir waren sehr spät da).