The Nobel Museum in Stockholm opened in 2001 — exactly 100 years after the first Nobel Prize was awarded.
The museum is located on the north side of Stortorget in Gamla Stan (the Old Town), in the former building of the Stockholm Stock Exchange, which it shared with the Nobel Library and the Swedish Academy.
The museum's exhibition is dedicated to Alfred Nobel — a patron, poet, industrialist, and inventor who grew rich from trading dynamite. The entire world owes him the Nobel Prize, which he bequeathed to be awarded annually to outstanding chemists, physicists, peacemakers, physicians, and writers.
In this museum you can virtually meet all Nobel laureates. Interestingly, their portraits are not hung on the walls, as in traditional museums, but move around the hall on hangers, as if in a dry cleaner's. No less curious is the fact that the autographs of great scientists and public figures are placed, again, not in frames behind glass, but on the inner side of chair seats. In addition, the Nobel Museum has interactive halls where you can conduct quite real scientific experiments.
