The Nobel Festivities Through the Years


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From Expressen kungligt Instagram, photos by Stella Pictures. A month to Nobel festivities, Victoria in 1995
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Princess Désirée at the King's dinner for the Nobel Laureates in 1980, when queen Silvia was sick and princess Désirée attended instead of her.
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King Carl Gustaf, queen Silvia, prince Bertil and princess Lilian in 1981
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and in 1982
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King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia arriving to the King's dinner for the Nobel Laureates, 11th December 1977.
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King Carl Gustaf and queen Silvia arriving to the King's dinner for the Nobel Laureates, 11th Decmber 1979.
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Princess Désirée with Nobel Prize Laureate Tsung Dao Lee in 1957.
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Princess Margaretha with british Nobel Prize Laureate Frederick Sanger at the Nobel banquet in 1958, and behind Margaretha princess Birgitta.
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Princess Margaretha and princess Désirée arrive to the Nobel Banquet with Nobel Prize Laureates Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg in 1959.
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Princess Désirée with Nobel Prize Laureate Rudolf Mössbauer in 1961.
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Nationalmuseum will open again Tuesday June 16
Due to the situation with the new coronavirus Nationalmuseum has been temporarily closed. Starting Tuesday June 16, the museum will be open again to visitors.

Pär Engsheden and Sara Danius’s Nobel Gowns (up until February 21, 2021)
Pär Engsheden is one of Sweden's foremost couture designers. Between 2015 and 2018 he created four notable dresses for Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. The design process involved an unusually close collaboration between the couturier and the wearer of his creations. Their conversations about fashion, philosophy and literature spanned dinners, trips, letters and text messages, as well as countless fittings. With Danius as his muse, Engsheden created four unique dresses that each tell an individual story.
The exhibition is produced in close collaboration with Pär Engsheden and Sara Danius and her family. It is based on Pär Engsheden's artistic research and is a collaboration with Beckmans College of Design, which will also jointly publish a book about the research in connection with a seminar to be held during the exhibition period. The exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of Nationalmusei Vänner.
Thanks to the especially kind donation by Sara and Leo Danius of the gowns, with the support of the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the garments are included in Nationalmuseum's collections. Carl Bengtsson's photographs of Sara Danius wearing the gowns are also part of the museum collections, thanks to his generous donation.
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Pär Engsheden and Sara Danius’s Nobel Gowns _ Nationalmuseum

Sara Danius at the Nobel Prize ceremonies with the gowns
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From 1987
The Queen jokes with 11-month-old Hidde Tonegawa, son of the Nobel Laureate in medicine, Susumu Tonegawa who keeps the child in her arms. To the Right of the Queen Carl XVI Gustaf, and Lars Gyllensten, writer and chairman of the Nobel Foundation, with his back to the camera Mayumi Tonegawa, wife of the medicine prize recipient.
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- The pandemic is basically a major crisis for humanity, but it also shows how important science is, says Lars Heikensten, the outgoing CEO of the Nobel Foundation, to DN.
This is the fourth time the banquet has been canceled in peacetime since the prize was established in 1901.
- There are two problems. You can not gather so many people crowded next to each other. And it is uncertain whether people can travel to Sweden to the extent they want, he tells the newspaper.
The winners will be announced as usual in October, but it is not yet clear how the prize ceremony will take place.
- It is a bit unclear how we do with it. Exactly as usual, that everyone is sitting in the Concert Hall, it probably will not be. But it may be that some prize winners come to Stockholm and some stay in their home country, and that we connect them digitally in some way, says Lars Heikensten to DN.
However, the foundation is planning a type of televised celebration for the winners and the Nobel Prize Museum will open an exhibition during the first week of Nobel Week in December, according to DN.
Corona_ Nobelfesten 2020 ställs in på grund av pandemin
 
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The Nobel banquet for 2020 has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic says Lars Heikensten, CEO of the Nobel foundation, to DN today. The prizes will be announced as usual in October but handed out at a later date.
 
A video from the 1973 Nobel Prizes:

 
Queen Silvia with her parents at the Nobel Prize festivities, 10th December 1981.
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The Sommerlaths
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The Sommerlaths at the King's Dinner for the Nobel Laureates, 11th December 1981
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Alice Sommerlath at the Nobel Banquet, 10th December 1985.
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Photos from 2001. We see also countess Sonja Bernadotte, and countess Bettina Bernadotte dancing.
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This year’s Nobel Prizes are soon revealed and the celebrations will adopt new formats
The first week of October is coming closer, when this year's Nobel Prizes, and the achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, will be announced. On 5-12 October, the prize awarding institutions will make their announcements and the press conferences can be followed via the Nobel Prize's official digital channels. The ongoing global pandemic means that the celebrations in Stockholm and Oslo in December will adopt new formats with more digital elements.
A different Nobel Prize week in December: the Nobel Prize pays a visit around the world
The current circumstances with the ongoing pandemic means that this is a unique year in the history of the Nobel Prize as the idea is that medals and diplomas are handed over to the laureates safely in their home countries, most likely with the help of embassies or the laureates' universities. The traditional ceremony in the Concert Hall will instead be a digital Nobel Prize award ceremony that will be held from the City Hall in Stockholm, where the awarding of this year's prizes will be woven together with features from different parts of the world. Only a small audience will be able to attend. The Nobel Banquet will not take place but will be accessible in a new way when the Nobel Prize Museum opens the first mayor exhibiton about the banquet.
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Unclear about the king's role when the Nobel Prize goes digital
This year's Nobel will look completely different, due to the pandemic. But what role does the king really play, now that everything is going digital?
Recently, the news came that the entire Nobel Prize ceremony in the Concert Hall will be canceled. The Nobel laureates - who will be announced between 5 and 12 October - will receive medals and diplomas in secure forms in their respective home countries, probably with the help of embassies or the laureates' universities. All that remains is a TV broadcast from a studio in Stockholm City Hall, in front of a very small audience. A unique year in the history of the Nobel Prize.
But what will the king's role look like? It is he who, by tradition, awards the Nobel Prize in the Concert Hall in Stockholm on Nobel Day, December 10?
Yes, that question has no answer yet. Or rather: No decision has been made.
- It is too early to say anything about this. I can confirm that we have a dialogue with the Nobel Foundation. Planning is underway and when we together have it ready, we will go out with information, says Margareta Thorgren to Svensk Damtidning.
Oklart om kungens roll när Nobelpriset blir digitalt _ Svensk Dam
 
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It is one of queen Silvia's, and also Victoria's, most iconic and acclaimed Nobel creations, specially sewn in the mid-1990s at the fashion house Nina Ricci in Paris.
Queen Silvia wore it to the Nobel party in 1995, and two years ago Victoria made the most glamorous retro success imaginable when she arrived to the Nobel ceremony in the same magnificent dress.
Now this dress is back: It celebrates its 25th anniversary in the best place in the new exhibition "Nobelfesten – festernas fest" at the Nobel Museum in the Old Town in Stockholm, with the King's white tie. Right now the Museum is closed due to the pandemic.
Kronprinsessan Victorias Nobelklänning_ Den sorgliga sanningen _*Svensk Dam
 
In this film you see how a Nobel dress designed by Nina Ricci worn by both the Queen (1995) and the Crown Princess (2017) is transported from the Palace to the Nobel Prize Museum. The dress is part of the exhibition Nobelfesten - festernas fest. Crown Princess Victoria attended for the first time in 1995. That year, her mother wore the Queen Silvia dress from the fashion house Nina Ricci. In 2017, the Crown Princess surprised with a dress that was worn during Nobel Day. It is well known that the Crown Princess likes to reuse both her own and her mother's garments, but this had not happened before in the Nobel context.
 
Now you can see the Crown Princess' Nobel dress in real life
Have you always wondered what happens behind the scenes at the party?
From 21 August, you can go to the Nobel Prize Museum to see an exhibition that takes you behind the scenes at the party.
And anyone who is interested in Nobel dresses will not be disappointed. Here is the Nina Ricci dress the Crown Princess made historical in 2018. Silvia wore the same creation in 1995.
- In the exhibition, we have chosen to show Nobel dresses where the person who wore them not only chose a beautiful fashion creation but also let the dress express its own identity, research or a matter of the heart. It is well known that the Crown Princess is happy to reuse both her own and her mother's garments, but this had not happened before in the Nobel context.
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The Nobel Prize banquet – behind the scenes
We welcome you to an exhibition where you can get a sense of what it feels like to attend the gala. The food, the clothing, the decorations and the laureates’ speeches are in the spotlight.
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The Nobel Prize banquet – behind the scenes _ Nobel Prize Museum

About the exhibition:
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I like the fact The SRF recycle their clothes it is so touching to see family members wearing clothes with memories.
 
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