Historical Nobel laureates live on at new exhibition

(7 Dec 2022)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stockholm - 6 December 2022
1. Wide, tilt down, of Mats Hjelm's ‘Where one is the other must be’ astronaut exhibit in museum
2. Close pan of astronaut
3. Wide of exhibits in museum
4. Close of exhibit
5. Tilt up of astronaut
6. Close of astronaut’s hand and knees
7. Wide of Director of Exhibitions Clara Åhlvik looking at exhibition
8. Åhlvik looking at objects in exhibition
9. Lab glassware
10. Close of lab glassware
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Clara Åhlvik, Director of Exhibitions at Nobel Prize Museum:
“We wanted to make an exhibition that highlights the Nobel Prize laureates in another way than we usually do. We wanted to show that they have a lot of things to say about the situation we have today. And we have a challenge today, we have a lot of challenges. With the title ‘Life Eternal,’ we wanted to focus on this strange paradox we have today that, in some sense, we can get older and older and older with (the) help of science. And on the other side, with the climate situation, we might not even have a place to live on Earth.”
12. Close of chili peppers
13. Plant exhibit
14. Close of plants
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Clara Åhlvik, Director of Exhibitions at Nobel Prize Museum:
“So if you limit, as we have done to look at the Nobel Prize laureates work and what they have contributed, you find so much. There are new works opening and they connect to one another through time and different categories. You can see they are all in the world and looking at it and trying to understand it. And that curiosity, that energy, that passion is extremely inspiring.”
16. Nobel mask
17. Wide of exhibition
18. Tilt up of medicine cabinet
19. Oscar Nilsson exhibit, Josie face
20. Josie floating
21. Wide of Josie
22. Wide of visitor looking at art
23. Art on wall
24. Wide of exhibition neon sign


STORYLINE:
Bridging the gaps between art, history and science, the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm is staging a temporary exhibition taking a closer look at the Nobel Prizes.

The exhibition explores the theme of ‘Eternal Life’ for the human race, which arguably lies at the heart of why scientists conduct the research they do.

Each room in the exhibition celebrates the work of multiple Nobel Prize winners, with artists Mark Dion, Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Oscar Nilsson interpreting the work of the likes of Marie Curie, Desmond Tutu and Kazuo Ishiguro.

The museum's Director of Exhibitions, Clara Åhlvik, said the exhibition aims to show that past Nobel Prize laureates are still relevant to solving the current challenges the human race is facing, even decades after their deaths.

“We wanted to focus on this strange paradox we have today that in some sense we can get older and older and older with (the) help of science. And on the other side, with the climate situation, we might not even have a place to live on earth,” she said.

Some of the exhibits include a plants and vegetation system that can be used in subterranean environments.

Visitors are also welcome to sit at the desk of some of the most famous laureates, including Albert Einstein, to reflect on what inspired him in making the discoveries he did.

The exhibition opened in October and runs until the end of January 2023.

AP video shot by Liv Stroud.

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